New, Now, Next. Consumers’ ever growing appetite to acquire new products and their short courtship with them has kept manufacturers busy not only expending resources at an alarming rate, but also depleting these resources and giving rise to waste and pollution at a correspondingly increasing and disturbing rate. Traditional manufacturing methods that use mainly virgin materials to produce new products and dispose of the used products at the end of their lives are quickly becoming unsustainable. In addition, regulations that require manufacturers to take back products and dispose of them responsibly have forced manufacturers to establish dedicated facilities for product recovery—systems that minimize waste and maximize remanufacturing and recycling.
Remanufacturing Modeling and Analysis explores the design, planning and processing issues encountered in remanufacturing systems and provides examples of quantitative modeling methodologies to deal with them. The book covers the history, industry size and potential, comparison with other end-of-life options, benefits, conditions, challenges, and steps in a typical process. It provides a brief overview of each of the industrial engineering and operations research techniques used in the book and explains the models developed to increase the remanufacturability of product designs. The book also discusses how increasingly stringent environmental regulations and decreasing natural resources influence manufacturers toward more environmentally conscious manufacturing and product recovery initiatives.
With easy-to-use mathematical or simulation modeling that demonstrates solutions for each remanufacturing issue, the book helps practitioners understand how a particular issue can be effectively modeled and how to choose the appropriate solution methodology. An in-depth look at quantitative analysis for remanufacturing systems, the book provides a foundation upon which to build a body of knowledge in this fast and growing area.
Part I : Background
Chapter 1 : Introduction to Remanufacturing
Chapter 2 : Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Techniques Used in the Book
Part II : Design Issues
Chapter 3 : Product Design
Chapter 4 : Reverse And Closed-Loop Supply Chain Design
Chapter 5 : Selection of Used Products
Chapter 6 : Evaluation of Remanufacturing Facilities
Part III : Planning Issues
Chapter 7 : Forecasting
Chapter 8 : Job Sequencing
Chapter 9 : Inventory Management
Chapter 10 : Production Planning and Control
Chapter 11 : Capacity Planning
Chapter 12 : Pricing
Chapter 13 : Control Mechanisms
Chapter 14 : Uncertainty Management
Chapter 15 : Product Acquisition Management
Chapter 16 : Supplier Evaluation
Chapter 17 : Optimal Supplier Portfolio
Chapter 18 : Selection Of Third-Party Logistics Providers
Chapter 19 : Performance Measurement
Part IV : Processing Issues
Chapter 20 : Disassembly
Chapter 21 : Cleaning
Chapter 22 : Inspection
Chapter 23 : Reassembly
Part V : Epilogue
Conclusions
