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Circularity Impact on Automotive Assembly – What Do We Know?

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Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management Systems for Responsible Manufacturing, Service, and Logistics Futures (APMS 2023)

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Abstract

Assembly is crucial in the automotive industry, and regulations aimed to increase circularity impact the production systems. From this perspective different strategies are emerging related to sustainability and to the End-of-life Vehicles directive, perspectives often captured by “R-words” like Reuse, Recycle, Rethink etc. This paper is based on a literature search inspired by different R-words related to circularity and assembly in the automotive industry in combination with industrial workshops on the same theme. The results explore what challenges to manage during the ongoing green transition in the context of assembly in automotive. Recover, Repair, Reuse and Recycle are the most common terms found in the literature. Furthermore, Remanufacturing stands out as of particular interest to the automotive industry. However, based on the industrial workshops, Rethink as a collective word is an important perspective as well. The conclusions indicate that digitalization can be an enabler but also that there is a need for developing a common understanding about definitions and utilization of engineering tools supporting circularity.

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The research was carried out within the assembly production cluster; the network and support for running the cluster work is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks to Hanna Lindén and Jutta Hildenbrand that held the circular economy workshop where the empirical results for this article were gathered. Furthermore, the SPARK research environment at Jönköping university funded by the KK-foundation is acknowledged.

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  2. Department of Management and Engineering (IEI), Linköping University, 58183, Linköping, Sweden

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  3. RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Argongatan 30, 43153, Mölndal, Sweden

    Sandra Mattsson

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Johansen, K., Jonsson, M., Mattsson, S. (2023). Circularity Impact on Automotive Assembly – What Do We Know?. In: Alfnes, E., Romsdal, A., Strandhagen, J.O., von Cieminski, G., Romero, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management Systems for Responsible Manufacturing, Service, and Logistics Futures. APMS 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 692. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43688-8_11

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