Refurbishment (electronics)
Refurbishing refers to the quality-assured overhaul and repair of products for reuse and marketing ( = remarketing ).
Of considerable economic importance, the refurbishing of products is at
- Computer and office equipment ( PCs, monitors, software, printers, copiers, and toner and ink cartridges),
- Components of motor vehicles,
- Production machines and complete production lines.
Refurbishing contributes to the prevention of waste and the conservation of primary resources.
Example
A product will be returned by the applicable 14 - day money back guarantee or warranty of the manufacturer, for example. This product is thoroughly checked and overhauled, in order to then sell it back to the manufacturer - often refurbished with a significant discount under the name. Most are the manufacturer of such a product a renewed warranty. Regardless of the manufacturer's warranty applies to products such as Refurbished for all commercially purchased products, the statutory warranty of two years.
Export to developing countries
The Export " refurbishter " (usually written off the devices are ) the equipment purchase vulnerable customers in developing countries with mass products and represents a significant economic factor there dar. equipment from industrialized countries to less developed countries facilitated due to the low cost
Refurbishments in real estate
In real estate, is frequently also of refurbishments, speaking in terms of conservation value ( remedial measures ) of existing properties.
Refurbishments in the IT industry
Operators of industrial plants Server soft in the wake of ever-shorter product life cycles, increased from refurbishte products on the IT Wiedervermarkung. In contrast to the widespread adoption of used computer equipment is no longer usable for production use because of the outdated technology, the second-hand market offers systems that are more than adequate for most requirements and have proven themselves in practice.
New technologies, which in the initial phase may still be error -bound under certain circumstances, provide in a production environment is a significant security risk A failure of a production system could mean financial ruin of a company in circumstances where data is permanently lost or resting process chain of a company. For this reason, administrators engage with preference to technologies back, which have already proven themselves in practice.
The supply of spare parts in the IT industry is a further problem, which is why operators of industrial computer systems are sometimes forced to buy used components. A product will only be supported and produced a limited time by the manufacturer. This also applies to spare parts, creating a shortage in the market arises with corresponding price increases.
Refurbishments leading IT companies
Major IT companies like Oracle, Hewlett -Packard, Cisco and NetApp have recognized the potential of the used market and created internal departments, dedicated to the distribution and marketing of refurbishter hardware. Besides the known distribution platforms for used items such as Ebay or Amazon various companies that specialize in the marketing and sales of used computer systems. Unternemehen which specialize specifically in the marketing refurbuishter server hardware and demonstrate a long-standing presence in the market are, among others, MCL ( authorized HP RENEW partner) and IMN Information Technology Microcomputer Network GmbH ( free distributor refurbishter server systems and used components).