The global demand for consumer electronic products has been phenomenal in the last two decades. The negative environmental effects of the growing consumption of electronic hardware are most visible in the end-of-life (EOL) stage. Remanufacturing is a viable option in electronic waste management as it reduces e waste generation and increases reuse of equipment and components. Inventory control i...

In this paper we analyze a reverse logistics inventory model investigated by Teunter (2001). Demand of a product can be satisfied with newly manufactured and remanufactured products. The used products are collected and then returned to the manufacturer of the product. The returned items are inspected and some of the used products are disposed outside. The rate of reuse is decision variable in t...

Remanufacturing has become a superior option for product recovery management system. It mainly consists of three stages: retrieval, reproduction, and redistribution. So far, many different approaches have been followed in order to improve the efficiency of a remanufacturing process. However, as the complexity increases, the use of computational intelligence (CI) in those problems is becoming a ...

In this paper we consider a stochastic inventory system with production, remanufacturing, and disposal operations. Customer demands must either be fulfilled from the production of new products or by the remanufacturing of used products. Used products are either remanufactured or disposed of. To coordinate production, remanufacturing and disposal operations efficiently, we extend the PUSH and PU...

1 Previously of Michigan Technological University ABSTRACT The remanufacturing industry is rapidly becoming a source of economic growth and environmental benefit. In the past, researchers have presented cost and energy savings due to remanufacturing a variety of products, largely based on the results of industry-wide surveys. However, little or no effort has focused on the life cycle assessment...

Nowadays, there has been a growing interest in reverse logistics, recycling, remanufacturing and reusing due to the environmental, economical issues and legal obligations. Due to this fact, companies should take into account the remanufacturing option while preparing the medium-term planning (MTP) activities instead of using traditional production planning models. There are lots of studies in t...

Remanufactured products that can substitute for new products are generally claimed to save energy. These claims are made from studies that look mainly at the differences in materials production and manufacturing. However, when the use phase is included, the situation can change radically. In this Article, 25 case studies for eight different product categories were studied, including: (1) furnit...

The optimal pricing and remanufacturing decisions problem of a fuzzy closed-loop supply chain is considered in this paper. Particularly, there is one manufacturer who has incorporated a remanufacturing process for used products into her original production system, so that she can manufacture a new product directly from raw materials or from collected used products. The manufacturer then sells t...

In this paper, we address the problem of choosing an appropriate channel for the marketing channel structure of remanufactured fashion products. To be specific, we consider a remanufacturer who has two options for selling the products: (1) provide the remanufactured products to a manufacturer, then the manufacturer sells both new products and the remanufactured products to customers, and (2) se...

In the modern manufacturing arena, environmental and economical concerns draw considerable attention from both practitioners and researchers towards remanufacturing practices. The success of remanufacturing firms depends on how efficiently the recovery process is executed. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology holds immense potential to enhance the recovery process. The deployment of...