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Maintenance policies and models: a bibliometric and literature review of strategies for reuse and remanufacturing

Santos, Augusto, Cavalcante, Cristiano, Wu, Shaomin (2023) Maintenance policies and models: a bibliometric and literature review of strategies for reuse and remanufacturing. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 231 . Article Number 108983. ISSN 0951-8320. (doi:10.1016/j.ress.2022.108983) (KAR id:98044)

Abstract

Reuse and remanufacturing have been widely studied in the maintenance related literature due to the imperative of preserving resources and protecting the environment. To provide researchers with a holistic view of the existing research, there is a need to check how relevant methods have been developed. This paper undertakes a bibliometric analysis and a comprehensive literature review of maintenance policies and models that deal with reuse or remanufacturing as sustainable strategies. A total of 581 papers collected from Web of Science, Scopus, and IEEE Xplore databases were analysed. 53 of them were chosen for further investigation after four selection criteria were applied. The bibliometric analysis provided a general understanding of the publication trends while the literature review built a taxonomy that organises the related literature under the dimensions of models, businesses, and sustainable strategies, which creates novelty in the maintenance-sustainability related literature. The main contribution is the classification of related papers and identification of the main knowledge gaps, including the neglect of the environmental and social aspects of sustainability vis-à-vis the prioritisation of an economic perspective.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.ress.2022.108983
Uncontrolled keywords: Maintenance policy, Maintenance model, reuse, remanufacturing, second-hand
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems
Depositing User: Shaomin Wu
Date Deposited: 16 Nov 2022 10:08 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2023 09:43 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/98044 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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