Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 286, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125498
Keywords
Remanufacturing; Upcycling; Fashion; Scale; Process interdependence; Circular economy
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- Region of West Sweden
- Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius Stiftelse [P18-0057]
- Environmental Board
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This study explores how process-level challenges can be addressed to improve scalability in fashion remanufacturing. Through a systematic literature review and case study, the research highlights the importance of achieving process-level scalability, particularly by focusing on low degree of coupling, high level of formalization of activities, and low skill specificity.
The purpose of this paper is to determine how process-level challenges can be solved in order improve scalability of fashion remanufacturing. In order to do so, and prescribe solutions, the paper first conducts a systematic literature review to reveal three categories of process-level challenges that are related to sourcing of input material, process throughput time, and skillset requirement. These categories further guided us in conducting case study with a Swedish charity-owned fashion remanufacturer for exploring how the challenges are addressed and solved in order to achieve process-level scalability. First, our study reveals a systematized approach to determine product-process categories defined by production volume and degree of remanufacturing. Second, by exploring the process-level challenges of six different remanufactured product groups in the case study organization we identify process-level requirements for scalability, and challenges when these are unmet. The findings show that in fashion remanufacturing (particularly disassembly and reassembly), low degree of coupling, high level of formalization of activities and low skill specificity can be ways to attain process-level scalability. Overall, this highlights the need to build lower interdependence between disassembly and reassembly during fashion remanufacturing. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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