Heuristics for solving disassemble-to-order problems with stochastic yields

A Mathematical Modeling Approach for Materials Requirements Planning in Remanufacturing

“…Most studies focus on disassembly planning which involves determining the quantity of used products to be ordered in order to fulfill the need for parts and subassemblies obtained from disassembly. Some of these studies alternatively refer to disassembly scheduling as reversed materials requirement planning (RMRP) since the problem in question is basically a reversed form of the regular MRP (see Lee, Kang and Xirouchakis, 2001;Inderfurth and Langella, 2006;Barba-Gutierrez, Adenso-Diaz and Gupta, 2008). In another example of the works related to MRP, Gupta and Taleb (1994) present a materials requirements planning for a simple product structure where parts disassembled from cores are the only source to be used as parts for new items.…”

Managing Preventive Maintenance on a Disassembly Line Using Multi-Kanban Mechanism

“…Disassembly is an important issue within the area of product recovery. Researchers have studied various aspects of disassembly including sequencing [4,5], scheduling [6,7,8], disassembly line [9,10], disassembly line balancing [11,12], disassembly to order systems [13,14], and automated disassembly [15,16]. The interested reader is referred to recent books by Lambert and Gupta [17] and McGovern and Gupta [18] for further information on different aspects of disassembly.…”

On the alignment of lot sizing decisions in a remanufacturing system in the presence of random yield

“…One of the main problems for many practical applications in the area of remanufacturing is that they have to deal with stochastic yields which means that the amount of remanufacturable components obtained from disassembling used returned products is not known with certainty (see also [19]). Due to the significance of that problem in a remanufacturing planning environment, we will now put forth the extension of the deterministic model that was introduced in the last section to incorporate stochastic yield fractions resulting from the disassembly process.…”

“…Nevertheless, stochastic yields have also been studied in a remanufacturing environment. Inderfurth and Langella, for instance, have concentrated their analysis specifically on the yield risk within the disassembly process [19]. Yet, they focussed on a multi-product multi-component problem setting in which a given discrete demand for components needs to be satisfied by either disassembling used products or manufacturing new components.…”