Active remanufacturing is an important technique that used to reduce the uncertainty of quality remanufactured cores. However, implementation active too early or late will lead a reduction in economic benefits and increase environmental impact during whole life cycle product. To this end, active-remanufacturing-timing decision method proposed based on economic, energy (3E) analysis product cycl...

Supply chain network design (SCND) is a challenging strategic issue for any company since it involves long-term decisions and high capital investment (see e.g. (Owen & Daskin, 1998) and (Melo, et al., 2009) for an overview of network design and facility location literature). Classical SCND problems include only forward flows, i.e. flows from suppliers to end customers. However, nowadays, many c...

Environmentally Conscious Supply Chain Management (ECSCM refers to the control exerted over all immediate and eventual environmental effects of products and processes associated with converting raw materials into final products. While much work has been done in this area, the focus has traditionally been on either: product recovery (recycling, remanufacturing, or re-use) or the product design f...

Remanufacturing of end-of-life products and parts is seen as a solution in the transition towards circular economy. There are many proposed tools methods to facilitate application this strategy, however, among them, there lack support for practitioners that include multiple perspectives related value chain In fact, remanufacturing economic environmental trade-offs, circularity indicators rarely...

Remanufacturing processes have been widely identified as being important elements of a sustainable economy. However, the commercial viability this product recovery route is significantly influenced by several operational challenges that are different from those occur in conventional manufacturing. One most used systematic process improvement methods manufacturing lean production, which seeks to...

Abstract Remanufacturing automation must be designed to flexible and robust enough overcome the uncertainties, conditions of products, complexities in planning operation processes. Machine learning methods, particular reinforcement learning, are presented as techniques learn, improve, generalise many robotic manipulation tasks (most them related grasping, picking, or assembly). However, not muc...

The asymmetrical genesis problem concerns why the universe should have an abundance of matter over antimatter. This paper shows how the baryogenesis and leptogenesis asymmetries may both be resolved. The solution is given in terms of the transformation of particles under a set of remanufacturing processes. Specific predictions are given for these processes in terms of the discrete field structu...

Refurbishment and remanufacturing are the industrial processes whereby used products or parts that constitute product restored. Remanufacturing is process of restoring functionality a part it to “as-new” quality, whereas refurbishment itself “like-new” without being as thorough remanufacturing. Within this context, EU-funded project RECLAIM presents new idea on based big data analytics, machine...

One of the industry sectors with the longest history in remanufacturing is the automotive industry. Remanufactured parts include brake calipers, engines, servo pumps and alternators. A big challenge for automotive component remanufacturers is to achieve a steady flow of cores (parts that are used for remanufacturing). This flow could be secured by making agreements with core suppliers, such as ...

We analyze a multi-echelon inventory system with inventory stages arranged in series. In addition to traditional forward material flows, used products are returned to a recovery facility, where they can be stored, disposed, or remanufactured and shipped to one of the stages to reenter the forward flow of material. This system combines the key elements of two simpler systems: the series system s...