OEM Remanufacturing Round Table Meets At Smeal
Top managers from Alcatel-Lucent, Bosch Tool, Caterpillar, Cummins, GE Transportation and Xerox, all OEMs that engage in product recovery and remanufacturing , met May 1 and 2 at a round table held at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
OEM Remanufacturing Round Table Meets At Smeal
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (May 22, 2008) – Top managers from Alcatel-Lucent, Bosch Tool, Caterpillar, Cummins, GE Transportation and Xerox, all OEMs that engage in product recovery and remanufacturing , met May 1 and 2 at a round table held at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
Remanufacturing has long been recognized as a foundation in the development of environmentally sustainable industrial systems. Managers discussed their most important business issues and how industry and academics can best partner to solve these problems.
Industry executives also exchanged information about best practices and discussed recent research findings from joint research with Daniel Guide, associate professor of operations and supply chain management at Smeal, and his research collaborators Luk Van Wassenhove of INSEAD and Atalay Atasu of Georgia Tech.
Guide has a long established research stream in closed-loop supply chains and remanufacturing. His research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and he is a frequent contributor to top academic and managerial journals. A follow-up round table is planned for the fall of 2008.
The May round table was organized by Guide with financial support from Smeal's Department of Supply Chain & Information Systems, the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change, and the Dean's Office.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
