REMANUFACTURING

PIERCE IS A LEADER in providing remanufacturing solutions to OEMs. Our experience is supplemented by our location within a few miles of the nationally recognized Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS; www.cims.rit.edu) and the National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery (NCR3; www.reman.rit.edu). This gives Pierce a tremendous advantage in applying the best and most cost effective practices offered today.

What is it? The Remanufacturing Institute (www.reman.org) defines remanufacturing as, the process of disassembly of products during which time parts are cleaned, repaired or replaced then reassembled to sound working condition.

A product is considered remanufactured if:

• Its primary components come from a used product.
• The used product is dismantled to the extent necessary to determine the condition of its components.
• The used product’s components are thoroughly cleaned and made free from rust and corrosion.
• All missing, defective, broken or substantially worn parts are either restored to sound, functionally good condition, or they are replaced with new, remanufactured, or sound, functionally good used parts.
• To put the product in sound working condition, such machining, rewinding, refinishing or other operations are performed as necessary.
• The product is reassembled and a determination is made that it will operate like a similar new product.

Why Consider it for your products?

• Allows you to amortize your initial design and engineering costs over a larger number of units.
• Frees up manufacturing capacity for new product introduction.
• Provides invaluable feedback on performance of parts and components.
• Improves margins by distribution of a lower cost, like new product.
• Eliminates environmental waste by reclaiming raw materials.

Why Choose Pierce as Your Remanufacturing Partner?

Pierce has the know-how and experience to assist you in evaluating the potential benefits in the remanufacture of your products or components. Unlike new build assembly work, remanufacturing requires dedicated engineering support and experienced technicians who are trained in evaluating the re-use of parts in the component or part to be reassembled.

The capability to disassemble and clean the used components and parts is unique to the remanufacturing process. Pierce has the personnel, facilities and know-how, and can provide many additional advantages to those who want to consider the remanufacture of their products.

PIERCE ADVANTAGES

• Asset Cleaning Center: we have a safe and certified process to clean parts and collect foreign substances that may be part of the remanufacturing process.
• DecisionASPECTS™ system: our technicians are well trained and experienced in making the right decisions and skillfully determining what aspects of each part and/or assembly need to be reworked or replaced. DecisionASPECTS™ is a training tool, and provides real time prompts and checklists that are used by our assembly technicians during the remanufacturing process.
• RuleMASTER™ system: a specific guidebook for each remanufacturing application. It captures our customer’s requirements in detail. This book is developed jointly by our engineering, QA and training departments. The system is the backbone on our remanufacturing operation and enables us meet your QUALITY, COST and DELIVERY objectives.
• PierceESTIMATOR™ system: assists our engineers to determining how Pierce can best assist you in your remanufacturing needs. With your brief input and our expertise, PierceESTIMATOR™ enables us to quickly determine the benefits to you of a particular application.
• Proximity to National Remanufacturing Center: Pierce is located within a few miles of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s CIMS center (www.cims.rit.edu) and the National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery (NCR3; www.reman.rit.edu) which are recognized as the leading sources for best practices related to remanufacturing. This allows us to have the best knowledge transfer and effectiveness in meeting our OEM’s demanding requirements.
• Engineering excellence: we have a large engineering component which helps us problem solve and find the best ways to help our customers recapture value from existing assets.
• Partnerships: we work with both U.S. based and off-shore partners to deliver best value to our customers.
• Full service: for your toner cartridges we are not simply a “refiller” but do a complete disassembly and remanufacture.

APPLICATIONS
• Office and business machines and their components
• Medical Equipment
• Compressors
• Other electromechanical parts and assemblies that can be reused

More about Remanufacturing
Pierce Industries’ experienced remanufacturing engineers will:

• Determine which parts in a product or subassembly are reusable.
• Generate a bill of materials and determine yield percentages.
• Feed back information to you relative to yield percentages so you can continually evaluate the performance of parts or components designed into your products.
• Additionally, Pierce Industries has developed international sourcing so a customer need not know who makes what component.
• Obtain best value through the identification of global sources for components.

Pierce Industries engineering maintains a close relationship with Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS; www.cims.rit.edu) and the National Center for Remanufacturing and Asset Recovery (NCR3; www.reman.rit.edu) in order to keep up with the latest remanufacturing strategies and methodologies.

Our Engineering Department is an important resource for a customer’s design department. Through the collection of field wear and usage data on parts and components, Pierce will provide you with data that will help you determine where designs need to be changed in current and future products.

Traditionally, new-product assembly firms hire workers with minimal technical ability. They can do this since no decision is required as to whether a part is reusable or not—all parts are new.

Pierce Industries’ remanufacturing operations, however, distinguishes itself by employing technicians who have a level of expertise and experience necessary to determine on a part-by-part basis its reuse or yield. That is, they are capable of making the judgment call on whether parts can be used again or need to be refurbished or replaced. Because of this technical expertise, starting at the operator level, Pierce Industries can give its customers yield percentages for parts, another advantage of how Pierce Industries can improve your bottom line.




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