Natural resources limitation and emerging environmental regulations encourage the machinery manufacturing industry to be responsible for retrieving outdated machine tools of high value-added using sustainable methods like machine retrofitting, rebuilding, or remanufacturing. Besides, to cope with the era of Industry 4.0, industrial companies are presently seeking to modernize their manufacturing systems through the upgrading of existing machine tools to reduce time, effort, and cost while increasing profits. Based on the industrial survey conducted in this work, there is an urgent need in the industry to find an integrated methodology for predicting the life-span of reused components and ensuring their reliability capable of being applied by the machine users and independent remanufacturers who do not have access to the original design specifications of outdated machines. In this work, an integrated approach was created to predict the remaining lifetime and the mechanical behavior of old components that belong to outdated machine tools before reusing them in a second lifecycle. The created approach can be used for any kind of old mechanical parts after applying some adjustments related to the geometrical shape of the part, the type of used material, and the nature of the loads that the intended part is exposed to in the real application.weiterlesen