REMP - Remanufacturing E-Marketplace for a Circular Digital Supply Chain

与传统的原始设备制造商(OEM)的新生产相比，再制造将报废(EOL)产品返回到类似于新的功能状态，并提供匹配的保修，从而延长产品的使用寿命(200%至300%)，从EOL组件中获取剩余价值，并提供卓越的经济和环境效益。再制造可以在适当的部门减少80%以上的温室气体(GHG)排放，减少类似数量的新材料需求(成本)，并通过增加高达120%的熟练劳动时间来创造就业机会\[IRP 2018\]，同时仍然降低总体成本。然而，尽管有这些三赢的好处，英国再制造业仍处于起步阶段，例如再制造与制造业的比率非常低，仅为2%左右(ERN 2015)。此外，近98%的再制造商是中小型企业[SIR 2020]，他们努力建立自己的品牌资源不足，获得核心产品的机会有限(使用产品作为再制造的起始材料)，以及接触到客户基础的销售渠道稀缺。至关重要的是，该行业存在形象问题，客户不信任再制造产品的质量。此外，由于小规模再制造造成的严重低效和抑制成本，再制造往往被放弃，转而支持其他价值较低的报废过程，如材料的回收。eBay和Amazon等电子市场(EMPS)引入了将市场参与者聚集在一起的网络效应，从而使越来越多的客户吸引更多的商家和合作伙伴，反之亦然，中小企业从这些电子市场中受益匪浅。然而，这样的EMP不适合再制造产品，因为它们没有解决再制造面临的根本问题，即缺乏对再制造产品的质量控制和断断续续地访问核心。我们的项目最初专注于汽车零部件，将开发一个专门为再制造产品量身定做的EMP的新概念，该概念嵌入了质量保证机制、区块链和数据分析能力，使再制造商能够受益于插件式、模块化、可扩展的服务，而不受预先为平台业务的全部成本提供资金和访问核心的限制，通过该平台的新市场和分销渠道。REMP将为新兴的再制造行业带来许多好处：它沿着供应链创造和捕获价值，并将好处传递给客户。一个成功的REMP将通过再制造促进材料可持续使用的增长。

Remanufacturing returns end-of-life (EOL) products to a like-new functional state with matching warranty, thus, extending product service life (200% to 300%), capturing residual value from EOL components and providing superior economic and environmental benefits compared to traditional Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) new production. Remanufacturing can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by more than 80% in appropriate sectors, reduce new material requirements(costs) by a similar amount and create employment through increasing skilled labour hours by up to 120% \[IRP 2018\] while still reducing overall cost.However, despite these triple-win benefits the UK remanufacturing industry is still at its infancy, e.g. the ratio of remanufacturing to manufacturing is strikingly low, only at around 2% (ERN 2015). In addition, almost 98% of remanufacturers are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) \[SIR 2020\] and struggle with inadequate resources to establish their brand, limited access to cores (used products as starting material for remanufacturing) and scarce sales channels to reach their customer base. Crucially the sector has an image problem and customers do not trust the quality of remanufactured products. Furthermore, as a result of significant inefficiencies and inhibitive costs arising from small scale remanufacturing volumes, remanufacture is often abandoned in favour of other lower value end-of-life processes such as recycling of the materials.SMEs have benefited greatly from the Electronic Marketplace Places (EMPs) such as eBay and Amazon which introduce the network effect of bringing together market participants so that increasing numbers of customers to attract a greater number of merchants and partners, and vice versa. However, such EMPs are not suitable for remanufactured products as they do not address the fundamental issue facing remanufacturing, namely a lack of quality control for remanufactured products and intermittent access to cores.With an initial focus on automotive components, our project will develop a new concept of an EMP tailored for remanufactured products specifically one that is embedded with quality assurance mechanisms, blockchain and data analytics capability to enable remanufacturers to benefit from plug-in, modular, scalable services without the constraints of funding the full costs of a platform business up front, and access to cores, new markets and distribution channels via the platform.REMP will bring many benefits to the nascent remanufacturing industry: It creates and captures value along the supply chain and passes the benefits on to customers. A successful REMP will catalyse growth in sustainable use of materials through remanufacturing.