Manufacturing enterprises globally have already largely adopted the product-service strategy into their operations. However, due to gradual commoditization of services, manufacturing enterprises will have to further extend this strategy. One possibility is for manufacturers to servitize, not only their final products, but also a part of their value chain, with the aim of increasing their long-t...

This paper deals with the coordination of manufacturing, remanufacturing and returns acceptance control in a hybrid production-inventory system. We use a queuing control framework, where manufacturing and remanufacturing are modelled by single servers with exponentially distributed processing times. Customer demand and returned products arrive in the system according to independent Poisson proc...

Equipment manufacturers are increasingly selling complementary services such as remanufacturing services to their equipment customers. This servitization trend mandates that the remanufacturing supply chain network is optimized accordingly. In order to set up such network, investment decisions have to be made, not only regarding the number, locations and types of remanufacturing facilities, but...

Project-based remanufacturing is a kind of service-driven remanufacturing mode, and production scheduling is one of the important issues for project-based remanufacturing system operation. Many uncertain factors exist in the remanufacturing system which lead to the traditional single production scheduling model and approach can not satisfy the requirements for production scheduling in the proce...

Trade-in remanufacturing is a commonly adopted business practice under which firms collect used products for remanufacturing by allowing repeat customers to trade in used products for upgraded ones at a discount price. This paper studies how customer purchasing behavior and remanufacturing efficiency affect the economic and environmental values of such a business practice. We demonstrate a new ...

A considerable amount of work has recently been applied to the development of processes to reduce negative environmental impacts of disposal products. Different waste reduction options such as direct reuse, repair, refurbishing, cannibalization, and remanufacturing were introduced to overcome these shortages. This paper studies an integrated system of manufacturing and remanufacturing using a c...

Remanufacturing is one of the main practices toward a circular economy and industrial sustainability. highly dependent on how products are designed developed. can also benefit from automation for efficiency, accuracy flexibility. This paper, via multiple case study, connects three areas remanufacturing, product design investigates facilitate remanufacturing processes. First, guidelines discusse...

In this paper one of the important “end of life options” (remanufacturing) has been analysed. Among the related studies surveyed the various remanufacturing aspects, less attention has been paid to the stochastic process routing. In this regard, a remanufacturing process routing with stochastic activities is modelled as a GERT network. One of the efficient ways to analyse a remanufacturing proc...

Our daily lives and welfare rely heavily on products. Considering that climate change is caused by humans, it is important to handle and use products in a sustainable manner; remanufacturing is one such way to accomplish this. Remanufacturing is an industrial process where products are restored into useful life. However, few products are designed for remanufacturing, which sometimes makes reman...

Remanufacturing (or remarketing) is considered to have a high potential for achieving reduced production costs as well as reduced waste volume, through efficient use of resources. There are some variations of remanufacturing, including component reuse, refurbishing, retrofitting, upgrading, and even reselling as is (i.e., to second hand markets). This paper is an attempt to formally understand ...