ADD-reAM - Advancing Dutch Circular Economy through Additve Manufacturing: Strategies for Repair and Remanufacturing using AM
ADD-reAM is a large multidisciplinary Dutch research project on advancing repair and remanufacturing through Additive Manufacturing (AM), involving 18 researchers across 7 universities. The project aims to strengthen the circular economy by extending product lifecycles, reducing waste, and enabling more sustainable, resilient, and locally controlled manufacturing. It does this by developing knowledge, methods, demonstrators, and policy-oriented outputs such as a roadmap and white paper, while addressing technical, logistical, economic, legal, and societal barriers to embedding AM in repair and remanufacturing systems.
Within ADD-reAM, Task 1.3 focuses on collection and reverse logistics, with a strong emphasis on designing efficient and adaptive return flows for used, damaged, or obsolete products so they can be repaired or remanufactured using AM. Working with Ministry of Defence, we develop dynamic supply chain design models, studying where in the product structure AM should best be deployed for repair and spare parts support, particularly in conflict zones, also working other companies in the consortium, we also research with integrating forward and reverse flows in manufacturing and maintenance settings, and optimizing repair-versus-replacement strategies, including part consolidation and direct repair. The task therefore contributes the logistics and network-design backbone needed to make AM-enabled repair and remanufacturing operational in real industrial and defence contexts.
