Integration of Product Life Cycle Data toward Remanufacturing of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
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This study aims to incorporate the information collected from the product’s usage phase into making appropriate end-of-use and end-of-life (EOU/L) recovery decisions (e.g., reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, refurbishing, disposal) for consumer electronics. The analyses are focused on discovering a mutual link between the actual product usage behavior of consumers and the future reusability of devices. Agent Based Simulation (ABS) has been employed to characterize the heterogeneous usage behavior of electronics consumers. The results of simulation models help identify different product clusters ready for remanufacturing and further develop decision models that match the best EOU recovery option with each product cluster with a heterogeneous quality level of incoming returns.
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