We address the economic lot sizing problem with product returns and remanufacturing. For this problem we provide a new …

This paper deals with the coordination of manufacturing, remanufacturing and returns acceptance control in a hybrid … production-inventory system. We use a queuing control framework, where manufacturing and remanufacturing are modelled by single …. The following costs are included: stock keeping, backorder, manufacturing, remanufacturing, acceptance and rejection costs …

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 …

reuse is remanufacturing. Legislation trends, as evidenced in the European Union, are forcing manufacturers to take back and … put products back into the market, after remanufacturing. The remanufacturing may be done by either the manufacturer or a …