costs for both manufacturing and remanufacturing. The objective is to determine the lot sizes and production schedule for … manufacturing and remanufacturing so as to minimize the long-run average cost per unit time. We first develop a lower bound among …

optimal to remanufacture in a given period and for given inventory levels, then it is also optimal to remanufacture when the … inventory of part(s) is higher or the inventory of remanufactured product is lower. …

To generate insights into how production of new items and remanufacturing and disposal of returned products can be … effectively coordinated, we develop a model of a hybrid manufacturing–remanufacturing system. Formulating the model as a Markov … decision process, we investigate the structure of the optimal policy that jointly controls production, remanufacturing, and …

first period, and manufacturing as well as remanufacturing in the second period. We find the optimal policies for both … obtained from a numerical investigation. We find that when the cost benefits of remanufacturing diminishes and the IO has more … remanufactured products and find that in that case remanufacturing becomes less profitable overall. …

consumers’ behavior and the pricing and inventory policies of the retailer are systematically investigated. Moreover, based on …

remanufacturing. We first formulate a two-period model to investigate the OEM’s product-design strategy and the remanufacturer …, we show the thresholds that determine whether remanufacturing is constrained by collection, the thresholds for the …

A popular assumption in the current literature on remanufacturing is that the whole new product is produced by an … these players significantly impacts the economic and environmental implications of remanufacturing. In our model, the non …, although the integrated manufacturer always benefits from remanufacturing, the remanufacturing opportunity may constitute a …

We study the acquisition and production planning problem for a hybrid manufacturing/remanufacturing system with core … and production quantities. The production cost differences among remanufacturing high- and low-quality cores and … of high-quality cores is increasing in manufacturing and remanufacturing cost differences, while the acquisition price of …

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 … remanufacturing a product are exponentially distributed. Demand and used products arrive via mutually independent Poisson processes …