Reliability and cost optimization for remanufacturing process planning

State of the art review of quality, reliability and maintenance issues in closed-loop supply chains with remanufacturing

“…A numerical study is conducted and their results indicate that if the demand is met exactly, then the remanufacturer's profit is 22% or more. Downloaded by [Library Services City University London] at 01:25 01 July 2016 Jiang et al (2016) presented a dual-objective remanufacturing process optimisation method to maximise the reliability and minimise remanufacturing cost. They include the quality of the returned cores and the faults created by the remanufacturing processes in the assessment of the reliability of the final product using the entropy weight method.…”

“…(10) Household appliances: Li (2013) conducted a case study at a small household manufacturing company in China which mainly manufactures soy milk and other low-technology machines. (11) Lathes: Jiang et al (2016) applied their reliability and remanufacturing costs optimisation model on a second-hand lathe bed to evaluate the feasibility and validity of their model and solution approach. (12) AC induction motors: Reyes et al (1995) conducted a case study on AC induction motors at Xerox, to work towards the commitment of zero per cent landfill under their Asset Recovery management shortly called ARM.…”

“…Yazdian, Shahanaghi, and Makui (2016) used CVX, a Matlab-based modelling system for convex optimisation, and a particle swarm optimisation (PSO) heuristic to solve their joint optimisation of remanufacturing, pricing and warranty decision-making for EOL products model. Jiang et al (2016) used a genetic algorithm to solve the bi-objective optimisation formulation obtained for the maximisation of the reliability and minimisation of the remanufacturing costs. In Agarwal, Barari, and Tiwari (2012), PSO was used to find the optimal consumer incentive from the manufacturer's perspective to maximise profit.…”

Perceived quality of remanufactured products: construct and measure development

“…One of the key reasons given for the failure to realize the full potential of remanufacturing is that few consumers perceive remanufactured goods to be as good as new (Giutini & Gaudette, 2003;Jiang et al, 2016). By definition, remanufacturing is the disassembling, repairing, replacing, and reassembling of a part or product to restore it to a like-new condition (Aydin, Kwong, & Ji, 2015;MacDonald & She, 2015;Thorn & Rogerson, 2002), thus implying the quality of remanufactured products should be nearly equal to that of new products.…”

Parallel machine scheduling with dynamic resource allocation via a master–slave genetic algorithm

“…For future work, it is necessary to carry out a sensitivity analysis on the parameter setting in the proposed algorithm. It is also interesting to deal with the dynamic resource allocation in flexible manufacturing systems [39] and process industry systems [40][41][42][43][44]. In addition, multiobjective scheduling with dynamic resource allocation is also valuable because of its widespread applications.…”