As the authors state in the preface of the book, “the collected EOL (end of life) products are transported to a remanufacturing plant where they are disassembled into parts. Following the cleaning and inspection of the disassembled parts, repair and replacement operations are performed to deal with defective and worn-out parts. Finally, all parts are reassembled into a remanufactured product, which is expected to function like a new product. In addition to repair and replacement, some parts or modules may also be upgraded while remanufacturing a product” (page xix).
Floring Gheorghe FILIP, "BOOK REVIEW - Remanufacturing: Modeling and Analysis", Studies in Informatics and Control, ISSN 1220-1766, vol. 21(3), pp. 341-342, 2012. https://doi.org/10.24846/v21i3y201213