Remanufacturing Supply Chains

Recoverable manufacturing is gaining increased attention as firms continue to develop strategies to produce environmentally friendly products. This growth is attributable not only to recent environmental legislation, but more importantly, to an increasing awareness that such strategies can lead to higher revenues and market share and lower costs - a clear economic return. Recoverable manufacturing encompasses all approaches to increase product life including recycling, recovery, repair, and its most thorough form: remanufacturing. In this work, we characterize the challenges involved with employing economically attractive remanufacturing systems, outline the insufficiency of existing remanufacturing research and practices, and give a conceptual framework for remanufacturing system analysis.