Professor Nabil Nasr from Rochester Institute of Technology talks about remanufacturing. It's a process by which companies reclaim used products, break them down, clean them, and inspect them, to rebuild a "like-new" version of the same or a similar product. It's most often done in heavy industry, because of the high material, labor, and energy costs involved in making big industrial equipment from scratch. But it's being applied in other areas, too. Nasr discusses what companies have to do to make the process workable and efficient
