Abstract
Remanufacturing is a process when used product or core is brought to ‘like-new’ condition, might be with an upgrade in performance. This process complies with technical specifications, including engineering, quality, and testing standards. It yields a fully warranted product. The purpose of this study was to conduct initial research on the feasibility of remanufacturing primarily on the mobile phone casings to provide information and consideration for a firm that would do remanufacturing of mobile phones. A series of material characterization on several mobile phone casings manufactured by major international brands revealed that remanufacturing is not a viable route to attempt. The evaluation shows that remanufacturing used casing mobile phone require several stages of repair, which cause an increase in the cost that can, in turn, affect the prices.
Highlights
Rapid development in mobile phone technology during the last decade has resulted in the availability of various brands and specifications of mobile phones in the market
This study was conducted in two phases: (i) an interview process with a mobile phone manufacturer and several mobile phone users to understand their view on the possibility of doing mobile phone remanufacturing, (ii) material characterization using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X−Ray Analysis (EDAX) to analyze the structure of casing materials casings including their manufacturing process
The results show that the mobile phone is not suitable for remanufacturing, based on material analysis, process difficulty, as well as cost projection
Summary
Rapid development in mobile phone technology during the last decade has resulted in the availability of various brands and specifications of mobile phones in the market. Remanufacturing is a process when an old product or core is made like a new condition, even upgrade in better performance [2,3,4]. This process complies with technical specifications, including engineering, quality, and testing standards. Remanufacturing is a promising recovery process for electronic products and mobile phones [5,6,7]. In this research, remanufacturing was focused on mobile phone casings, where a feasibility study was conducted to identify the possibility of remanufacturing mobile phone casings. The physical damage of a mobile phone is mostly found in the outer casing due to the effects of abrasion, impact and other deformation acts, which are affected by the strength of mobile phone casings materials used
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