With a Product-Service System (PSS), the producer often has control of its products during multiple life-cycles, and thus there are more incentives for design for service and remanufacturing in comparison to traditional sales. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of PSS regarding information feedback transfer in the product life-cycle including remanufacturing. The paper explores two in...

The management of production and inventory control associated activities in remanufacturing production system has received attention by practitioners in the last two decades. This is due to the increased productivity, limited supply of virgin materials, stringent environmental requirements for product disposal and treatment as well as substatial change in global sustainability regulations. In o...

Disassembly is the most critical stage of remanufacturing activities. The condition of parts disassembled for reuse/remanufacturing display a high variance. Hence demand for different parts found in a core cannot always be satisfied by a single core. At this point the question is whether to partially or fully disassemble the second core. In this paper, we concentrate on quantifying the potentia...

The management of remanufacturing activities requires new techniques in order to improve these systems for cost optimized operations. However, several factors make the operations of the reverse logistics process difficult. In particular, uncertainties in quantity, quality and timing of returns negatively affect remanufacturing activities such as production planning and inventory control. In thi...

Together with reuse and material recycling, remanufacturing has emerged as a sustainable approach for used products. Remanufacturing is more complex than manufacturing, due to the uncertainties in material and information flows inside the remanufacturing facility and along the product life-cycle. Therefore, some remanufacturers intend to use lean production principles and philosophies to deal w...

In this paper secondary markets opportunities for hybrid remanufacturing/manufacturing systems will be analyzed. Recovering options allow increasing product’s inherent value recovery rate and it have been experimented by many manufacturers for several years. Particularly, the remanufacturing has been receiving great attention from many OEMs. In this case, the joint presence of high quality retu...

One of the challenges of this decade is to rationalize the consumption of global resources while increasing economic activity. Remanufacturing is an option to this challenge; however this end of life strategy must be optimized. The information collected from a franking machine manufacturer, which has set up a refurbishment activity of its machines, has allowed us to qualify remanufacturing as a...

This paper addresses a dynamic Capacitated Production Planning (CPP) problem in steel enterprise employing a closed-loop supply chain strategy, in which a remanufacturing process is adopted. We develop a model in which all demands are met by production or remanufacturing without backlogs, under the context that both the production and remanufacturing setup cost functions are arbitrary and time-...

As an integral component of sustainable manufacturing, recycling and remanufacturing have been gaining popularity in line with Green initiatives. While the importance of item-level information their success has been stressed, the potential of RFID technology in recycling/remanufacturing has not received much attention in the research literature. We attempt to address this gap by considering RFI...

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...