Erik Sundin

Professor

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 20 000 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

CV Erik Sundin English 6.pages 2022 (PDF, 347,8 kB)

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 5 European Union projects that focuses on improving the preconditions and competitiveness for remanufacturing companies. He has also arranged international conferences on remanufacturing (ICoR) and product service systems (IPS).

International projects

CarE-Service – Circular Economy Business Models for innovative hybrid and electric mobility through advanced reuse and remanufacturing technologies and services
CIRC€UIT – Circular European Economy Innovative Training Network
L4IDS – Learning for Innovative Design for Sustainability
ERN – European Remanufacturing Network
CAN-Reman - Testing and Diagnosis Technologies Development for Car Mechatronic and Electronic Remanufacturing

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

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.

Sustainable Manufacturing

Researchers at Linköping University together with industrial partners are studying industrial process for manufacturing to make them more sustainable.

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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

2023

News

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Erik Sundin won Best Reman Ambassador at REMATEC

The jury at Roty Awards in Amsterdam think that Erik Sundin demonstrate passion and commitment for the reman industry.

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LiU hosts open lecture on sustainable and interdisciplinary research

LiU hosted an open lecture titled "Pick and Mix Circular Economy and why we love it" as part of the Interdisciplinary Networking for a Sustainable and Circular Economy (INSCE) project funded by the ECIU SMART-ER program.

IEI researchers among the world´s most cited

Stanford University has recently published an update of the list of the two percent most cited scientists in the world. And again several researchers at IEI are on the list.

Organisation

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.

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.

Erik Sundin

Sustainable manufacturing with focus on circular economy and remanufacturing

CV