<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if a product&amp;rsquo;s journey&lt;/strong&gt; didn&amp;rsquo;t end after its first use? Remanufacturing&amp;mdash;restoring preowned parts to perform like new&amp;mdash;is transforming automotives, electronics, and other industries. In this episode of &lt;em&gt;The McKinsey Podcast&lt;/em&gt;, Senior Partner &lt;a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/inga-maurer"&gt;Inga Maurer&lt;/a&gt; and Editorial Director Roberta Fusaro explore how this practice reduces waste while creating more value for companies.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Articles Mentioned:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/one-year-of-agentic-ai-six-lessons-from-the-people-doing-the-work"&gt;One year of agentic AI: Six lessons from the people doing the work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/infrastructure/our-insights/the-infrastructure-moment"&gt;The infrastructure moment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Theme music composed, performed, and produced by Joy Ngiaw&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy"&gt;www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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Remanufacturing: Turning old parts into new opportunities

OCT 23, 202520 MIN
The McKinsey Podcast

Remanufacturing: Turning old parts into new opportunities

OCT 23, 202520 MIN

Description

What if a product’s journey didn’t end after its first use? Remanufacturing—restoring preowned parts to perform like new—is transforming automotives, electronics, and other industries. In this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, Senior Partner Inga Maurer and Editorial Director Roberta Fusaro explore how this practice reduces waste while creating more value for companies.

Articles Mentioned: 

One year of agentic AI: Six lessons from the people doing the work

The infrastructure moment

Theme music composed, performed, and produced by Joy Ngiaw

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