In this paper, seven remanufacturing companies are compared from a lean process perspective. Most of the companies experienced uncertainty regarding how many and when the cores arrived at the remanufacturing facilities, making planning more difficult. Furthermore, the companies reported high inventory levels as a problem. Hence, the companies often had a high number of cores, spare parts or hal...

The lean philosophy, which denotes business excellence through continuous improvement, originates from Japanese car manufacturer Toyota’s Production System (TPS). An area where lean is not fully explored is remanufacturing, a business that brings used products back to useful life. Remanufacturing is often a more complex process than manufacturing due to uncertainty of process steps/time and par...

Climate change reports and policies relating to end-of-use products, CO2 emissions, and energy are causingmanufacturers to examine their operations closely. Several reports have touted the economic and environmental benefits of remanufacturing, including claims of significant reductions in terms of energy and CO2 emissions. However, large-scale remanufacturing of heavy equipment engine componen...

Remanufacturing can bring considerable economic and environmental benefits such as cost saving, conservation of energy and resources, and reduction of emissions. With the increasing awareness of sustainable manufacturing, remanufacturing gradually becomes the research priority. Most studies concentrate on the analysis of influencing factors, or the evaluation of the economic and environmental p...

The design of products greatly influences the performance of the product in the rest of the product’s life-cycle phases, e.g. manufacturing, use/maintenance and end-of-life processes. In order to design more sustainable products, information from all life-cycle phases should be implemented in structured ways via e.g. eco-design tools in the design process. Remanufacturing is one viable end-of-l...

Remanufacturing as an industry can extend product life and service and even enhance its performance. The knowledge involved in remanufacturing industry is not as systematic and available as that in other industries. Knowledge management for remanufacturing industry is therefore challenging, and yet important as it is knowledge management has been proved in other industries as a tool in current ...

In our problem, a company can use both a remanufacturing facility to sell returned products and a classical production facility to satisfy the demand that cannot be fulfilled by returns. Such systems are called hybrid production/remanufacturing systems and have received a growing attention in recent years. To perform production and remanufacturing, a company can use dedicated or shared resource...

Remanufacturing activity views the reverse supply chain of reclaimed goods as integral to the traditional supply chain to the consumer. At the end of the useful life of products, a reverse supply process is activated in which unwanted materials and products are recovered from end users to recapture some of their value. Therefore, planning for the traditional supply chain of goods must take into...

Enterprises have assigned increasing importance to remanufacturing, and meanwhile, the competitiveness of remanufacturing has also become established. In this article, game theory is exploited and government subsidies for remanufacturing, consumer willingness to pay and recycling competition are considered, with a focus on a supply chain consisting of one local manufacturer and one nonlocal rem...

Remanufacturing represents a higher form of reuse by focusing on value-added recovery, rather than materials recovery Ž . i.e., recycling . Remanufacturing systems are widespread in the United States and are profitable. However, the management of production planning and control activities can differ greatly from management activities in traditional manufacturing. We report on managerial remanuf...