In order to safeguard the future of Chinese automobile industry, and maintain and strengthen its acceptance in Chinese community, it should be made a commitment to sustainability. The approaches to sustainability in Chinese automobile industry should comprise three aspects: nature conservation, production-related environmental protection and “5R” implementation which is considered as sustainabl...

Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) are shifting towards remanufacturing, signalling growth in new investments remanufacturing. It is a noticeable global trend owing to the popularity of circularity and sustainability concepts, catalysed by environmental legislations profit motives. Thus, development effective business models for remanufacturing essential. However, capturing entirety compone...

This paper summarizes various aspects of identifying and using biological analogies in engineering design. To avoid the immense as well as potentially biased task of creating a database specifically for this purpose, the chosen approach searches biological knowledge in natural language format, e.g., books, papers, etc., for instances of functional keywords describing the engineering problem. St...

Abstract Whilst remanufacture is identified as a key enabler for sustainable manufacture in future industry, its role within the context of new product development remains unclear. Where prototypes often go through multiple iterations with varying degrees change, could be adopted to reduce time and cost components design iteration? This paper presents computational study explore potential savin...

This paper studies joint pricing and remanufacturing strategy of a firm that decides to offer both new and remanufactured versions of its product in the market. In making this decision, the firm balances the additional revenue from selling remanufactured products, the demand cannibalization of new product sales, and the cost of remanufacturing. We present the model of the firm’s decisions and c...

Environmental problems are recognized as one of the most serious issues in these last few decades. Green supply chain management and sustainable supply chain management have gained increasing attention within both academia and industry. Previous studies proposed a closed-loop supply chain model and a negotiation protocol for increasing the amount of reused products and reducing waste products. ...