inventory management in production-remanufacturing system has been receiving a great deal of attention in recent years. in literature review, production environment is composed of two sections. the first section is included: production process, remanufacturing process and other options considered in reverse logistics. the second section is included: collection and sorting processes. determinati...

In several industries, remanufacturing is an important ingredient of the manufacturing strategy. In a typical remanufacturing site, a job shop is responsible for the disassembly of used machines to obtain parts that will be repaired, or whatever operation is necessary to make it perform and look like new. This paper deals with the value of information in this environment. We compare different s...

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...

In this paper, the authors will present the state of the art about product and process assessment for remanufacturing of computer controlled automotive components (mechatronics) – by giving an insight into their current research activities in the area, including theoretical analyses, field studies in the car electronic remanufacturing industry, contract research for professional car mechatronic...

The uncertain quality of used products highly affects the performances of remanufacturing systems and quality of remanufactured products. Hence the quality issues of used product cannot be neglected in remanufacturing. To apply the quality concept into remanufacturing system control or simulation, individual management of each product is required. To this end, a multi-agent approach can provide...

In this paper a conception of using Lean Manufacturing methodology in disassembly and reassembly processes (Remanufacturing) is presented. Nine scenarios of material and information flows in Remanufacturing processes were developed in order to cover most of possible real situations.

Inventory policies for joint remanufacturing and manufacturing have recently received much attention. Most efforts, though, were related to (optimal) policy structures and numerical optimization, rather than closed form expressions for calculating near optimal policy parameters. The focus of this paper is on the latter. We analyze an inventory system with unit product returns and demands where ...

Firms often determine whether or not to make components common across products by focusing on the manufacturing and sales of new products only. However, component commonality decisions that ignore remanufacturing can adversely affect the profitability of the firm. In this paper, we analyze how remanufacturing could reverse the OEM’s commonality decision that is based on the manufacturing and sa...

high congestion of returned product at remanufacturing facility causes substantial delays and consequently remarketing value losses for time-sensitive and high-tech products with short life cycles, such as electronic equipments. at the remanufacturing site the returned product are inspected and classified according to their quality and processing time in one of the two classes: class 1 being ad...

Remanufacturing Laser cladding Inspection Additive Manufacturing (AM) Adaptive machining Hybrid processing Repair Remanufacturing is one of the most efficient ways of recycling worn parts because it consumes only a fraction of the energy, cost, and material required for new parts. Remanufacture of engineering components typically entails serial labor intensive and operator skill sensitive proce...