This paper outlines work carried out in the field of inventory management on remanufacturing. So far numerous authors have proposed quantitative models taking inventory management in remanufacturing into consideration. However, no general framework has been specified yet. Thus, it appears timely for a composed outline of the issues showing up in the context of remanufacturing inventory control. In this review, the area is subdivided into three main fields, in particular inventory policies, deterministic & stochastic models and lead time effects. For each of the aforementioned fields, the models proposed in the literature are reviewed and the areas in necessity of further research are indicated.
A remanufacturing is an independent institution in which a variety of activities such as disassembly, inspection, disposing, refurbishing, repairing, remanufacturing, transportation and reassembly are performed. We propose an approach that uses an open queuing network, decomposition principle and expansion methodology to analyze the remanufacturing system and use Taguchi method to find out how much the buffer sizes affect on performance. The objective function values, throughput and total cost, are calculated for each experiment. Main effects plots show how each factor affects the response characteristic.
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