Research On Reverse Logistics Of The Copier Industry Product Servitization

With the social development, people pay more and more attention on the issues ofenvironmental protection and resource conservation. Office equipment updates faster and faster,the same as its elimination rate. Nowadays, there is a huge number of used office equipment inthe market. It is a manifestation of technological progress to meet customer demand forequipment replacement for the manufacturing enterprises.Meanwhile, how to reuse the wasted or used office equipment like copiers, so thatreducing waste of resources and the harm to the environment has become a serious problem. Atpresent, more and more manufacturing companies extend the meaning of products from simpletangible products to value-added products, and the tangible product only use as a platform forservice delivery. Product servitization gradually comes into the market.At the same time, compared with the developed countries, the way our office equipmentrecycling remains at a low level, mainly manifested as confusion of business entities, roughtechnology, lack of reverse logistics network for the waste copier, secondary pollution to theenvironment and so on. There are more problems occur among the recycling channels andremanufacturing process.