This paper proposes and investigates the use of embedding sensors in products when designing and manufacturing them to improve the efficiency during their end-of-life (EOL) processing. First, separate design of experiments studies based on orthogonal arrays are carried out for conventional...

"Reverse supply chains consist of a series of activities required to collect used products from consumers and reprocess them to either recover their leftover market values or dispose of them. It has become common for companies involved in a traditional (forward) supply chain (series of...

"Six Sigma is one of the most widely used quality improvement methodologies today, both in manufacturing and service industries. Minitab® is a statistical software package that is often used in conjunction with Six Sigma projects. This book illustrates the application of Minitab® for Six Sigma...