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Erik Sundin

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Erik conducts research on manufacturing and remanufacturing towards a sustainable future.
Research is applied in manufacturing industry and through a large international collaboration.

Sustainable manufacturing with focus on circular economy and remanufacturing

Erik has long experience of research on circular economy and remanufacturing. He wrote his PhD thesis in 2004 entitled Product and Process Design for Successful Remanufacturing. His dissertation is popular (downloaded more than 24 000 times) since it is not many dissertations written about remanufacturing. Most of Erik’s research has been focusing on remanufacturing but lately the subject of sustainable manufacturing and product service systems has also been researched. Within product service systems Erik is one of the top 5 most cited authors.

CV

Research

Erik has been working within several national and international research projects. He has also arranged international conferences on remanufacturing (ICoR) and product service systems (IPS).

International collaborations

Erik has been working within several international research projects where he has participated in six European Union projects that focuses on improving the preconditions and competitiveness for remanufacturing companies. He has also arranged international conferences on remanufacturing (ICoR) and industrial product service systems (IPS2).

International projects

National research collaborations

Nationally Erik is leading and participating in several research projects on circular economy and remanufacturing. Much focus has lately been on how to best use life cycle information about products to facilitate remanufacturing and design-for-remanufacturing. He is also leading a project on sustainable manufacturing were an industrial cleaning and drying machine is developed using nothing but very clean water.

National projects

  • ARR – Automation in Repair and Remanufacturing
  • SQID – Sustainable and Qlean Industry Demonstrator
  • Mistra REES - Resource-Efficient and Effective Solutions based on circular economy thinking
  • RemProLife - Efficient Remanufacture through Use of Lean principles and Product Life-cycle data
  • KEAP - Design for Remanufacture through Efficient Use of Product Life-cycle data

Do you want to read more about Erik and his projects, see his CV.

Research projects

Many forklifts.

Remanufacturing – key enabler to future business

The overall purpose for the project is to support manufacturers to become more resilient, circular and sustainable through remanufacturing and contribute to a more efficient use of resources.
Industrial washingmachine.

Sustainable Manufacturing

Researchers at Linköping University together with industrial partners are studying industrial process for manufacturing to make them more sustainable.
Fujitsu factory taking apart computers in Japan.

Design for manufacturing and remanufacturing

Our research aims to develop methods for manufacturing companies and how they should design their products for manufacturing and remanufacturing.
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Products Services and Innovation

The unit is a research group that are leading experts in applied and transdisciplinary research on sustainable value creation based on a system perspective that enables effective and efficient use and preservation of resources.

Publications

2024

Paulina Golinska-Dawson, Tomohiko Sakao, Erik Sundin, Karolina Werner-Lewandowska (2024) How can OEMs scale up remanufacturing in product-as-a-service (PaaS)? - challenges and enablers from a theoretical and industrial perspective International Journal of Production Research, p. 1-30 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Jelena Kurilova, Johannes Matschewsky, Erik Sundin (2024) Four Levels of Remanufacturing Maturity as a Circular Manufacturing Indicator: A Theoretical Framework and Practical Assessment Tool Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 211, Article 107899 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Johan Vogt Duberg, Erik Sundin, Jelena Kurilova-Palisaitiene (2024) Exploring the incentives for initiating remanufacturing: experiences from eight European original equipment manufacturers Procedia CIRP, Vol. 122, p. 437-442 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Johan Vogt Duberg, Erik Sundin, Ou Tang (2024) Assessing the profitability of remanufacturing initiation: a literature review Journal of Remanufacturing, Vol. 14, p. 69-92 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Linnea Ankarberg, Nazli Terzioğlu, Erik Sundin (2023) Circular furniture design: a case study from swedish furniture industry EcoDesign for sustainable products, services and social systems I, p. 269-284 (Chapter in book)

News

Mattias Lindahl.

The world's first ISO standards for a circular economy have arrived

Several researchers from the Linköping University have participated in the work to develop the world’s first ISO standards for a circular economy. The goal is a more sustainable society.
Two female student, dissasembling an Ikea product.

Students disassemble Ikea products

This is part of a research project in which LiU students get to collaborate with the Swedish furniture giant. The students document possibility of repairing, replacing and reusing.
Autumn at the Campus Valla and bikes.

Research at IEI holds a high standard

Stanford University has recently released an updated list of the top two percent most cited researchers globally, and it is gratifying to note that once again, several distinguished researchers from IEI are represented on the list.

Organisation

Environmental Technology and Management

Environmental Technology and Management (MILJÖ)

Division of Environmental Technology and Management is a research and education environment at the Department of Management and Engineering. We turn environmental problems into opportunities.
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Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.
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About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

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