key success factors for remanufacturing are quality, lead-time and cost. Extensive work within the industry and the … detailed analysis of the remanufacturing process has shown that component inspection has significant bearing on overall … productivity. Remanufacturing lacks automation because activities are predominantly manual. Automation of remanufacturing process …

products remanufacturing. In this paper, we discuss the optimal decision for a joint manufacturing and remanufacturing system … in a multi-period horizon, including manufacturing decision, remanufacturing and disposal decisions of the returned …

and takes a certain fraction of the used items back for remanufacturing, in exchange for a deposit transferred to the … and remanufacturing costs, and unit holding costs at the vendor and the purchaser, the cost-minimal order/lot sizes and … remanufacturing rates are determined for the purchaser, the vendor, the whole system assuming partners' cooperation, and for a …

manufacturing and remanufacturing products and optimal inventory levels. The main objective is to maximize net profit of the company …

Remanufacturing has emerged as a competitive strategy for manufacturers to tackle environmental and economic challenges …. In this paper, an integrated fuzzy approach is developed for the evaluation of remanufacturing alternatives. Then …, importance weights of main remanufacturing processes and evaluation criteria are obtained through fuzzy extent analysis. Fuzzy …

relationship for their products before making decisions on the use of brand as a part of remanufacturing/recycling strategy. …

One of the industry sectors with the longest history in remanufacturing is the automotive industry. Remanufactured … is to achieve a steady flow of cores (parts that are used for remanufacturing). This flow could be secured by making … of the actual cores, and only perform the remanufacturing activity (service) for an OEM. This new relationship, called …

Remanufacturing is a process of recovering used products to a like-new condition. It can potentially achieve … products and remanufacturing processes. This research aims to develop a framework and cost model to quantitatively evaluate the … benefits of remanufacturing techniques to assist the decision making on end-of-life strategies. Additive manufacturing …

remanufacturing offers the possibility to transform the constraint of environmental regulations on product recovery into an …