Firms engaged in remanufacturing activities generally adopt more than one recycling channel to collect more used products and gain more profits. This paper explores the optimal strategies for a retailer-dominated closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) with a triple recycling channel in the construction machinery remanufacturing context. In this special system, the retailer is the leader and authorized...

The ability to respond timely and cost effectively is bringing rapid manufacturing techniques into the mainstream production/repair arena. The Army can benefit from such technologies to avoid long lead times and high costs of procuring and inventorying replacement parts. But, a technology that offers versatility in terms of product size, cost and the ability to fabricate production components r...

The concept of zero waste is an ideal situation that will require different solutions for categories waste. Electronic (E-waste), the fastest growing category solid hazardous presents various unique challenges. product repair, reuse and remanufacture (3re) are crucial effective source reduction E-waste integration electronics industry into a circular or zero-waste economy framework. Increasingl...

The outcomes of annihilation are known, including some of the intermediary products, and the process can be represented by Feynman diagrams and modelled mathematically. However the mechanisms of annihilation at a deeper fundamental level are unknown. How exactly does matter and antimatter convert into photons? How does mass change into energy? This paper develops an answer by providing a theory...

Purpose: On pursue of economic revenue, the second life of electric vehicle batteries is closer to reality. Common electric vehicles reach the end of life when their batteries loss between a 20 or 30% of its capacity. However, battery technology is evolving fast and the next generation of electric vehicles will have between 300 and 400 km range. This study analyzes different End of Life scenari...

We consider a single-product make-to-stock manufacturing-remanufacturing system. Returned products require remanufacturing before they can be sold. The manufacturing and remanufacturing operations are executed by the same single server, where switching from one activity to another does not involve time or cost and can be done at an arbitrary moment in time. Customer demand can be ful lled by ei...

The application of state of the art manufacturing processes has always been constrained by the capabilities either from technical limitations such as limited materials and complex part geometries or production costs. As a result, hybrid manufacturing processes – where varied manufacturing operations are carried out – are emerging as a potential evolution for current manufacturing technologies. ...

Remanufacturing is a product recovery option that upgrades the quality of returns to “as-good-as-new” conditions. Remanufactured products cost less, and are sold with the same or better warranty as for new products. In this paper, we consider a duopoly environment with two manufacturers in direct competition selling their respective new products on the primary market. Specifically, we address t...

Brush-electroplated nickel coating has been widely applied to repair and remanufacture ferrous metal component. Generally, the nickel coating has thickness from 0.05 mm to 0.2 mm, and it is also ferromagnetic like iorn metals. Therefore, the traditional supersonic thickness tester and eddy current thickness tester are not competent to measure the nickel coating thickness on iron or steel metal ...