Remanufacturing Process Planning

Remanufacturing is an active area of research due to its cost saving capabilities and emission-reduction benefits. After being disassembled, cleaned and inspected, the core components go through a series of reconditioning operations before being reassembled into the final remanufactured product, and tested to ensure quality. However, used core components have varying conditions, different defects, etc., which result in reconditioning process paths being specific to each component in the core. The reconditioning process sequence for a core component depends on its conditions. This paper analyses the conditions of the core components to determine an optimal reconditioning process sequence for these components © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the International Scientific Committee of the 21st CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering in the person of the Conference Chair Prof. Terje K. Lien.