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.
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