Sustainable impact assessment of Augmented Reality implementation at Volvo Group Truck Operation (GTO) Remanufacturing
Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Production engineering (MPPEN), MSc
Publicerad
2020
Författare
Gangasandra Shivakumar, Lishith Kumar
Mohan, Nihar
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Sammanfattning
Today, the manufacturing industries are adhering to the industry 4.0 revolution
and promoting to incorporate the digital technologies to their operations to enable
efficient production systems. Simultaneously the industries are also progressing towards
sustainability, in order to reduce the negative environmental impacts that
mainly cause by the production. Reducing environmental impacts not only protects
the climate but it also helps to attract more customers. It tends to motivate the
customers to contribute to the environment by purchasing the products that processed
in a most sustainable way. In a way, remanufacturing is considered to be one
of the most sustainable methods of treating a product at its end of life. Manufacturing
companies have begun to realize that products that are discarded at the end of
their usage phase still have various components that can be reused instead of being
recycled. The benefits of remanufacturing are that it utilizes fewer resources, less
energy consumption, and reduces waste. The optimization of the remanufacturing
process with the implementation of digital technologies is one of the methods to
accomplish even more sustainable benefits from remanufacturing.
This study aims to identify an optimal method for assessing the sustainable performance
of the Volvo GTO and evaluate what will be the environmental benefits
of implementing AR. This study begins by identifying the processes involved in the
remanufacturing plant. By adopting the Quantitative and Qualitative approach for
the project, the method to evaluate the sustainable performance of the company,
and the benefits of implementing AR are obtained.
By the end of the report, the readers can find the results accomplished from the
study. The method and results aid the company to evaluate its sustainable performance
and to identify the contribution of each process involved in the remanufacturing
process to the environment. Also, the main contributor to causing the
negative impacts on the environment is identified. By analyzing the several case
studies of AR implementation in the remanufacturing industries, what will be the
similar potential improvements that can be anticipated from the implementation of
AR at Volvo are listed. The project team also suggested some significant tools for
an environmental assessment for the company as recommendations.
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Remanufacturing, Augmented reality (AR) , Sustainability, Environmental assessment