Abstract Global resource consumption is steadily rising. One option for stopping this upward trend to reduce material in general. With economics built growth, not a practical path pursue. Another recently explored alternative the paradigm shift from linear economy circular economy. The most common concept among practitioners and academics comprises 6R's: Reuse, Repair, Refurbish, Remanufacture,...

Most frameworks for dealing with the complexity of designing circular economy have limitations in terms correlating different domains knowledge, highly complex design strategies, and facilitating process strategies’ discovery development. This paper discusses how managers designers can create products that be circulated several life cycles by considering five objectives (i.e., maintenance/longe...

The unsustainable take-make-dispose linear economy prevalent in healthcare contributes 4.4% to global Greenhouse Gas emissions. A popular but not yet widely-embraced solution is remanufacture common single-use medical devices like electrophysiology catheters, significantly extending their lifetimes by enabling a circular life cycle. To support the adoption of catheter remanufacturing, we propos...

Process uncertainty makes remanufacturing operations management sophisticated. To reduce the of timing, quality and quantity product returns in remanufacturing, motivated by selling leasing electric vehicle batteries, we consider a monopolist vendor who markets her products adopting two models: (1) single model, (2) model. We first investigate firm's marketing model...

Within the framework of reverse logistics, the classic economic lot-sizing problem has been extended with a remanufacturing option. In this extended problem, known quantities of used products are returned from customers in each period. These returned products can be remanufactured, so that they are as good as new. Customer demand can then be fulfilled both from newly produced and remanufactured...

Remanufactured products offer better environmental benefits, and governments encourage manufacturers to remanufacture through various subsidy policies. This practice has shown that, in addition to product sales, remanufactured product can also achieve its value through social donation. Based on the remanufactured product value realization approaches, governments provide two kinds of incentive p...

Healthcare expenditures in the US are approaching 2 trillion dollars, and hospitals and other healthcare providers are under tremendous pressure to rein in costs. One cost-saving approach which is gaining popularity is the reuse of medical devices which were designed only for a single use. Device makers decry this practice as unsanitary and unsafe, but a growing number of third-party firms are ...

As an effective way of decreasing production cost, remanufacturing has attracted more and more attention from firms. However, it also brings many difficulties to firms, especial when firms remanufacture products which they produce. A primary problem for the case is how to acquire the used product sold by the firm itself. In this paper, we consider a return compensation policy for acquiring used...

The current trend of depletion of natural resources due to an ever-increasing number of consumer goods manufactured has led to an increase in the quantity of used and outdated products discarded. From an environmental point of view, it is not only desirable to disassemble, reuse, remanufacture and/or recycle the discarded products, in many cases it can also be economically justified. This situa...

Abstract The demand of composites in the aviation and space industry has increased significantly recent decades. This is due to excellent properties composite materials, especially their low density design flexibility. However, reuse further utilization structures materials provide new challenges for recycling sector. In accordance with ‘Green Deal’ European Commission, pathways are required en...