Remanufacturing oriented production equipment development

In May 2008, Brazil and Germany established the Brazilian German Collaborative Research Initiative in Manufacturing Technology. This initiative is financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) on the German side and CAPES, CNPq and FINEP on the Brazilian side. It focuses on the research of how production technology can foster sustainable value creation. Within this initiative, the three universities: Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) work together on a joint research project entitled “Remanufacturing oriented production equipment development”. In this project, remanufacturing scenarios for sustainable value creation will be developed. Areas of application for production equipment for various fields of development will be identified, and adequate strategies for competition and collaboration in these remanufacturing scenarios will be developed. Furthermore, a technology roadmap for sustainable value creation with remanufacturing oriented production equipment in Brazil and Germany will be provided. Based on these results a remanufacturing oriented model for production equipment will be deduced. Finally, the project aims at demonstrating the results through an exemplary implementation.

Project Duration: May 2009 to April 2011
This project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SE485/30-1]