Erik Sundin

Erik Sundin

Professor of Sustainable Manufacturing

Phone: +46-13-286601

Affiliation: Linköping University

Academy: Production Academy

Professor at the division of Environmental Technology and Management, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University. Conducts research within Sustainable Manufacturing with focus on circular economy, product-as-a-service, remanufacturing and design for circularity/remanufacturing.

Erik was born in 1974 and raised in Närkes Kil outside the city of Örebro, Sweden. In 1993 he moved to Linköping to study a Master program in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering (Y) (environmental profile). Erik then choose to make his PhD in Sustainable Manufacturing with a focus on remanufacturing and design for remanufacturing.

Research

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) and most of Erik’s research has been focusing on remanufacturing but lately the subject of sustainable manufacturing and Product-as-a-Service has also been studied.

Erik has been working within several national and international research projects. He has also arranged international conferences on remanufacturing (ICoR) and industrial product service systems (IPSS). Currently he is also act as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Remanufacturing (Springer).

 

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.

National research

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 (examples)

  • REMARKABLE – Remanufacturing – key enabler to future business
  • 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

More information and list of publications can be found at:

https://liu.se/medarbetare/erisu71

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