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Remanufacturing: Operating Practices and Strategies (May, 2008)
[This report, 113 pages in length, examines practices and strategies employed by remanufacturers in the United States. This report draws on the authors’ decades of study of the industry and on the authors’ database of thousands of remanufacturing firms. In addition to the discussion of practices and strategies, the report also contains profiles of seven United States remanufacturers of substantially different scale and product focus, in markets with different competitive dynamics.]
The Remanufacturing Industry: Anatomy of
a Giant (June, 2003)
[This report, 179 pages in length, covers topics such as the nature of the firm, sales and
marketing, product design and process issues, workforce, cores (the raw
material of remanufacturing), capital investment, costs, and strategic barriers and
opportunities in the industry. The basis for our findings is an eleven-page questionnaire
that was filled out by each of 274 randomly selected respondent firms. Their
responses totaled over 28,000 separate data records.]
Remanufacturing
[The Boston Remanufacturing Project was established in recognition of the economic
development potential of remanufacturing. Because it is like light manufacturing in nature,
requiring only modest capital investment and utilizing relatively low-skilled people, it has the
potential for re-introducing industrial-type jobs and wages into urban. The intent of this project
is to see if it is feasible to establish new remanufacturing
enterprise into
specifically in
the study.]
The Remanufacturing Industry:
Hidden Giant (January 1996)
[Reports on the work of a team of researchers at Boston University under the direction of Professor Robert T. Lund. This team surveyed a random sample of 1,003 firms from a database of 9,903 American remanufacturers to obtain information on company sales, employment, and product categories. On the basis of this information, plus further assessments from industry experts, they arrived at estimates of total industry size and compiled economic information on eight sectors of the industry: automotive, compressors, electrical apparatus, machinery, office furniture, tires, toner cartridges, and valves.]