Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108880 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Remanufacturing [ISSN:] 2210-4690 [Volume:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2011 [Pages:] 1-11
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
In the area of reverse logistics, remanufacturing has been proven to be a valuable option for product recovery. In many industries, each step of the products' recovery is carried out in lot sizes which leads to the assumption that for each of the different recovery steps some kind of fixed costs prevail. Furthermore, holding costs can be observed for all recovery states of the returned product. Although several authors study how the different lot sizes in a remanufacturing system shall be determined, they do not consider the specificity of the remanufacturing process itself. Thus, the disassembly operations which are always neglected in former analyses are included in this contribution as a specific recovery step. In addition, the assumption of deterministic yields (number of reworkable components obtained by disassembly) is extended in this work to study the system behavior in a stochastic environment. Three different heuristic approaches are presented for this environment that differ in their degree of sophistication. The least sophisticated method ignores yield randomness and uses the expected yield fraction as certainty equivalent. As a numerical experiment shows, this method already yields fairly good results in most of the investigated problem instances in comparison to the other heuristics which incorporate yield uncertainties. However, there exist instances for which the performance loss between the least and the most sophisticated heuristic approach amounts to more than 6%.
Subjects: 
reverse logistics
remanufacturing
lot sizing
disassembly
random yield
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