Decision makings in key remanufacturing activities to optimise remanufacturing outcomes: A review

Joint control of production, remanufacturing, and disposal activities in a hybrid manufacturing–remanufacturing system

To generate insights into how production of new items and remanufacturing and disposal of returned products can be effectively coordinated, we develop a model of a hybrid manufacturing–remanufacturing system. Formulating the model as a Markov decision process, we investigate the structure of the optimal policy that jointly controls production, remanufacturing, and disposal decisions. Considerin...

Joint control of production, remanufacturing, and disposal activities in a hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system

To generate insights into how production of new items and remanufacturing and disposal of returned products can be effectively coordinated, we develop a model of a hybrid manufacturing–remanufacturing system. Formulating the model as a Markov decision process, we investigate the structure of the optimal policy that jointly controls production, remanufacturing, and disposal decisions. Considerin...

Remanufacturing and the Component Commonality Decision

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...

A machine learning approach to optimise the usage of recycled material in a remanufacturing environment

Remanufacturing has acquired importance in recent years because of the increasing environmental concerns of manufacturing processes that deplete the Earth’s resources. Some examples of remanufactured products are automobile parts, furniture, photocopiers, and computer printers. In a remanufacturing setup, raw materials are drawn from two sources: (i) ‘cores’, which are obtained from recycled pr...

Remanufacturing in the Uk