Engineering Feasibility Study of Remanufacture of Chain Saws

摘要

This is the fourth in a series of studies on the subject of manufacturing, conducted by the Center for Policy Alternatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and sponsored by the Alternative Materials Utilization Branch of the Office of Industrial Programs, US Department of Energy. These pioneering studies have served to examine the nature and extent of remanufacturing in the US, the energy and materials conservation potential of this activity, and opportunities for further development of commercially viable remanufacturing enterprises. In this volume we present a preliminary engineering feasibility study of the remanufacture of chain saws, one of the products that had been identified in an earlier study as offering an attractive opportunity for an extension of the remanufacturing concept. (ERA citation 13:048917)