Cloud manufacturing is a new manufacturing paradigm that offers manufacturing capabilities in terms of Cloud services. As a specific type of manufacturing, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) remanufacturing experiences difficulties in system integration, data exchange and resource management, especially when the products reach the end of lifecycle. Thus it is possible to introduce the Cloud manufacturing paradigm into WEEE remanufacturing environment, to overcome the obstacles and bottlenecks. In this paper, a novel Cloud-based system is developed to support WEEE remanufacturing. The WEEE recycle/recovery capabilities are integrated and deployed as flexible services in the Cloud. Supporting mechanisms and technologies are also developed, which are presented and evaluated via case studies.
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