Jelena Kurilova

Associate Professor

My research helps companies to initiate remanufacturing on their original products by focusing of production system, business model, product, and customer. By applying lean principles and practices a more efficient remanufacturing can be achieved.

Remanufacturization: Shift to Remanufacturing

A Sustainable Strategy to depart from Linear to Circular economy for manufacturers and product owners.

Jelena has expertise in production systems and business models for remanufacturing; she helps industries to shift to remanufacturing to become more sustainable. By applying an analytical tool, called Remometer^®, manufacturing industries and product owners can assess their potential with remanufacturing: preconditions (for example, product suitability for remanufacturing), Remanufacturing Readiness Level (RRL) and estimate their economic, environmental and social benefits with remanufacturing. Jelena has experience in assisting industries in transformation to a business model where remanufacturing is treaded as a sustainable strategy for technical products.

Jelena has an industrial and experience of lean manufacturing and an academic competence in a production system with remanufacturing. During her doctoral studies (2013–2018), she focused on developing appropriate lean improvements for challenges in the remanufacturing process.

Jelena has worked in several national and international research projects: KEAP (2013-2016), Åter Produkt (2013-2016), ARR (2018-2020), SE: Kond2LIFE (2019-2022) as well as was the main project applicant/leader for ElevatoRe (2018-2019), iCURE (2020), and Remometer (2020-2021).

Research

Research project

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Overcoming behavioral barriers towards consumer product remanufacturing, STIGMA

The STIGMA project tackles waste prevention and product life extension issues and illuminates circular solutions to enable continuous product use/reuse, such as Product as a Service (PaaS) and Remanufacturing.

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Remanufacturization

The project will support B2C manufacturers in the transition towards remanufacturing by developing and improving manufacturers' remanufacturing ecosystems as well as investigating the remanufacturing potential of consumer products.

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Remometer

We help manufacturers and other actors to start remanufacturing by investigating their suitability and readiness to start remanufacturing.

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.

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Remanufacturization

Most consumer products are not made for remanufacturing. There are a lot of fears, prejudices, obstacles and other risks on both the producers’ and customers’ sides and Dr. Jelena Kurilova-Palisaitiene together with Prof. Lars Witell are ready to shine the light on that issue in the Remanufacturization project.

Publications

Doctoral Thesis

Jelena Kurilova-Palisaitiene (2018)

Lean Remanufacturing: Reducing Process Lead Time

2024

Valeriia Lastovetskaia, Jelena Kurilova-Palisaitiene, Hugo Guyader, Lars Witell, Jasenko Flodin Arsenovic, Camilla Strömbäck, Anders Lundkvist (2024) Buying used and remanufactured products instead of brand-new ones: What really matters for consumers

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)

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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)

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2023

Bob Nanthakorn, Johan Vogt Duberg, S Seang, Jelena Kurilova-Palisaitiene, Erik Sundin, Mattias Lindahl, Ruth Banomyong (2023) Circular Strategies in Southeast Asia: Cambodian Customer Perception of Remanufactured Motorcycle Parts

Bob Nanthakorn, Johan Vogt Duberg, Sok Seang, Jelena Kurilova-Palisaitiene, Erik Sundin, Mattias Lindahl, Ruth Banomyong (2023) Cambodian customers' perception of remanufactured automotive parts Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Remanufacturing (Conference paper)

CV and duties

Academic background

2018 PhD in Manufacturing Engineering, Linköping University
2010 Master in Industrial Engineering and Management, Linköping University
2008 Bachelor in Economics, Klaipeda University, Lithuania
2007 Erasmus exchange - Business Administration – Strategy and Management in International Organisations, Linköping University.

External duties, networks

Managing Editor for the Journal of Remanufacturing, Springer Nature

Internationalisation

2017 Guest researcher at Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC), Singapore.

2014 Guest researcher at Fraunhofer IPT and RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Online presence

Kunskapsförmedlning

Teaching

Supervision and lectures

TMMI47 – Production Development
TMPS27 – Production Systems
TMPS31 – Sustainable Manufacturing
Bachelor and Master thesis supervision

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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.

Sustainable Manufacturing

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

Sustainable Business Models

A rapidly growing field of research. The focus is on life cycle-based offerings and business models in which design and innovation are important components. The research is interdisciplinary and is conducted in close collaboration with industry.

News

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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.

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Network meeting for a sustainable and circular economy

Researchers working on the project "Interdisciplinary networking for a sustainable and circular economy (INSCE) met in Kaunas Lithuania to discuss current and futures trends in sustainability and circular economy related research.

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More than SEK 30 million from Formas

Ten researchers have been awarded grants from Formas – a Swedish research council for sustainable development. The projects explore everything from digital inclusion and sustainable urban transformation to the migration of domestic workers.

Coworkers

Petter Alsén

Research Assistant

Annelie Carlson

Head of Division, Principal Research Engineer

Valeriia Lastovetskaia

Senior Associate Professor

Johannes Matschewsky

Assistant Professor, Head of Unit

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.

Jelena Kurilova

Remanufacturization: Shift to Remanufacturing