We consider the acquisition and production decisions of a remanufacturer who acquires used products of variable condition and allocates remanufacturing activity to domestic and offshore facilities. The problem is formulated as a multicommodity network flow model with economies of scale and product obsolescence. We show that the remanufacturer's optimal strategy can be chosen from a finite set o...

This study analyses a production-management model that considers the possibility of implementing a reverse-logistics system for remanufacturing end-of-life products in a lean production environment (as opposed to models that use EOQ approaches). Decision variables are identified (including manufacturing and remanufacturing capacities and return rates and use rates for end-oflife products) and o...

This paper studies a manufacturing remanufacturing system composed by two parallel machines, a serviceable inventory, a remanufacturing inventory and a customer which demands a constant quantity of part. Taking into account the return of the used part and the maintenance action, discrete flow model is used to model and to simulate the system. The goal of this work is to evaluate the optimal ser...

Increased momentum in support of a Circular Economy (CE) has motivated the exploration alternative production and value-retention processes that allow for decoupling environmental impacts from economic growth. Remanufacturing, key value retention process, can enable significant economic, social (also known as triple-bottom line) advantages. Given their competitive proposition, remanufactured pr...

Remanufacturing has acquired importance in recent years because of the increasing environmental concerns of manufacturing processes that deplete the Earth’s resources. Some examples of remanufactured products are automobile parts, furniture, photocopiers, and computer printers. In a remanufacturing setup, raw materials are drawn from two sources: (i) ‘cores’, which are obtained from recycled pr...

Environmental and economic evidence is increasingly supporting the need for better analytical tools for evaluating the recovery of consumer products. In response, we present a novel mathematical model for determining what we call the Optimal Recovery Plan (ORP) for any given product. The ORP is based on an evaluation and optimization of the economics of remanufacturing consumer products versus ...

This study aims to incorporate the information collected from the product’s usage phase into making appropriate end-of-use and end-of-life (EOU/L) recovery decisions (e.g., reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, refurbishing, disposal) for consumer electronics. The analyses are focused on discovering a mutual link between the actual product usage behavior of consumers and the future reusability of ...

Remanufacturing is one of the most effective forms recycling economy, and “Trade-in for Remanufacturing” (TIFR) program in China plays an important role development remanufacturing. To understand this new business model remanufacturing, price demand relationship NP RP are examined two periods, considering TIFR subsidy which practice China. Comparing integrated optimization scheme tiered scheme,...