Download or read book Production Scheduling in a Lean Remanufacturing Environment written by Joshua Mark Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards Lean Remanufacturing written by Jelena Kurilova-Pališaitien? and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remanufacturing is an environmentally sound material recovery option which is essential to compete for sustainable manufacturing. The aim with remanufacturing at a majority of companies is to prolong physical product performance by delivering the same or betterthan-original product quality. In general, remanufacturing is an industrial process that brings used products back to useful life by requiring less effort than is demanded by the initial production process. Consequently, from a product life-cycle perspective, remanufacturing generates great product value. Remanufacturers lag behind manufacturers since they often face complex and unpredictable material and information flows. Based on a review of remanufacturing research, remanufacturing challenges in material and information flows can be classified into three groups: insufficient product quality, long and unstable process lead times, and an unpredictable level of inventory. While some remanufacturing researchers state that manufacturing and remanufacturing are significantly different, they have more in common than many other processes operations. Therefore, to sustain competitive remanufacturing, companies investigate an opportunity for improvement through the employment of lean production that generates significant benefits for manufacturers. In order to investigate the potential to address remanufacturing challenges by lean production, a Minimum time for material and information flow analysis (MiniMifa) method was developed. This method originates from the value stream mapping (VSM) method, broadly practiced to bring lean to manufacturing companies. The focus of MiniMifa was to collect empirical data on the identified groups of remanufacturing challenges from the remanufacturing perspective, and to provide a basis for the development of improvements originating from lean principles. Lean production was selected for this research due to its system perspective on material and information flows. Among the defined lean principles in remanufacturing, a pull principle was investigated at the case companies. The suggested principle demonstrated a reduction in lead time, followed by improvements in inventory level and product quality. However, in order to become lean, remanufacturers have to overcome three levels of lean remanufacturing challenges: external and internal challenges as well as lean wastes. Finally, this research reduces the gap between academia and industry by contributing with a possible solution to the identified remanufacturing challenges in material and information flows.
Download or read book Cyclic Production Scheduling with Remanufacturing written by Armin Aminipour and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The cyclic production scheduling problem is concerned with the development of a least-cost cyclic production schedule for a set of tasks required to produce a set of products over a given production cycle and according to a given delivery schedule. Recently, remanufacturing of used products has become an important area of research due to its environmental and economic benefits. Consequently, many organizations integrated manufacturing and remanufacturing operations to optimize their forward and reverse supply chain processes. There are some studies that have been conducted on cyclic production scheduling, remanufacturing, as well as cyclic production scheduling with remanufacturing systems, which have led to the development of different optimization approaches. But to the best of our knowledge, none of them considered cyclic deliveries in order to build cyclic production schedules integrating both manufacturing and remanufacturing. Therefore, the focus of this research is to develop a mixed integer linear programing model for an integrated cyclic production scheduling with remanufacturing system to satisfy a given cyclic delivery schedule while minimizing the total holding and setup costs under the assumption of a delivery cycle of one week discretized into smaller periods. A sensitivity analysis is conducted by varying the model parameters to study the limits of the developed model and illustrate the effect of these variations on the total holding and setup costs as well as the computational time. The results of the sensitivity analysis indicate that thirty minutes would be the best period length for the developed model. These results also validate the capability of the developed model in solving the problem at hand and finding the optimal, near optimal, and good feasible solutions for a period length equal to thirty minutes. Further, increasing the number of decision variables or increasing the amount of scheduled deliveries and returns will result in the computational time to increase exponentially. Also, varying the holding cost or increasing the return rate will result in an increase in the computational time. Finally, increasing the holding cost or increasing the return rate will result in an increase in the total holding and setup costs."--Abstract.
Download or read book Maintenance Planning and Scheduling written by Timothy C. Kister and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-05-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a hands-on reference guide for the maintenance or reliability engineer and plant manager. As the third volume in the “Life Cycle Engineering series, this book takes the guiding principles of Lean Manufacturing and Maintenance and applies these concepts to everyday planning and scheduling tasks allowing engineers to keep their equipment running smoothly, while decreasing downtime. The authors offer invaluable advice on the effective use of work orders and schedules and how they fit into the overall maintenance plan. There are not many books out there on planning and scheduling, that go beyond the theory and show the engineer, in a hands-on way, how to use planning and scheduling techniques to improve performance, cut costs, and extend the life of their plant machinery. * The only book that takes a direct look at streamlining planning and scheduling for a Lean Manufacturing Environment * This book shows the engineer how to create and stick to effective schedules* Gives examples and templates in the back of the book for use in day-to-day scheduling and calculations
Download or read book Remanufacturing Modeling and Analysis written by Mehmet Ali Ilgin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 th
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Lean Management written by Torbjorn H. Netland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the phenomenon known as "lean" has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first volume to provide an academically rigorous overview of the field of lean management, introducing the reader to the application of lean in diverse application areas, from the production floor to sales and marketing, from the automobile industry to academic institutions. The volume collects contributions from well-known lean experts and up-and-coming scholars from around the world. The chapters provide a detailed description of lean management across the manufacturing enterprise (supply chain, accounting, production, sales, IT etc.), and offer important perspectives for applying lean across different industries (construction, healthcare, logistics). The contributors address challenges and opportunities for future development in each of the lean application areas, concluding most chapters with a short case study to illustrate current best practice. The book is divided into three parts: The Lean Enterprise Lean across Industries A Lean World. This handbook is an excellent resource for business and management students as well as any academics, scholars, practitioners, and consultants interested in the "lean world."
Download or read book Production Planning in Remanufacturing Systems with Uncertain Component Processing Time written by Ruo Liang and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's manufacturing industries in many countries have developed systematic product recovery, remanufacturing and recycling procedures in an environmentally supportive manner to release the regulatory pressure as well as to achieve economic benefit. This thesis presents a mixed integer programming model addressing production planning problems in hybrid system of manufacturing and remanufacturing. The objective of solving the mathematical model is to minimize the total cost based on the optimal quantity of new items to manufacture and the optimal quantity of returned products to remanufacture in each period of the planning horizon. The proposed model has a distinctive feature that considers the uncertainty of remanufacturing time for the same type of returned products. A new heuristic solution method, similar to Silver-Meal heuristic for solving traditional lot-sizing problems, is developed to solve the considered production planning problems in hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing systems is developed in this thesis. The developed heuristic is examined using various example problems generated in three dimensions (problem size, returned products quantity and category quantity). The results show that it can generate optimal or close-to-optimal solutions for all tested example problems with much reduced computational time. The model and the solutions were analyzed and sensitive analysis is conducted to investigate the performance of the developed model and solution method.
Download or read book Optimal manufacturing remanufacturing policies in a lean production environment written by Sergio Rubio and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainability in Remanufacturing Operations written by Paulina Golinska-Dawson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present customers’ consumption models result in an increasing number of used products that need to be collected and reused or disposed. Remanufacturing is a favourable scenario in order to recover the end-of-use products. It allows to capture substantial part of the resources which were used in the primary production at lower cost, providing economic, environmental and social benefits. The book presents the methods, models, case studies for improvement of sustainability in remanufacturing facilities. The focus is on small- and medium-sized enterprises and their challenges to meet resource-efficiency goal.
Download or read book Supply Chains and Total Product Systems written by Ed Rhodes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging reader locates supply chain management, leanproduction and related practice within the holistic concept oftotal product systems. Demonstrates the strategic relevance of managing supply chainsand supply networks to organizational performance and to a range ofbusiness functions, including finance, design, production,environmental management, information systems, and marketing. Considers sustainable supply chain management across theservice, manufacturing and process sectors. Reflects the radical changes in organizational beliefs,practices and processes that are necessary for a shift to supplychain management in contemporary, global, competitiveconditions. Considers particular issues and challenges for micro, small,and medium-sized enterprises. Contains readings that are interdisciplinary and internationalin focus.
Download or read book Computational Intelligence in Remanufacturing written by Xing, Bo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many alternatives to manufacturing have been recommended from a number of international organizations. Although challenges will arise, remanufacturing has the ability to transform ecological and business value. Computational Intelligence in Remanufacturing introduces various computational intelligence techniques that are applied to remanufacturing-related issues, results, and lessons from specific applications while highlighting future development and research. This book is an essential reference for students, researchers, and practitioners in mechanical, industrial, and electrical engineering.
Download or read book Planning Demand Driven Disassembly for Remanufacturing written by Ian M. Langella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian M. Langella examines the planning of disassembly for remanufacturing of used products, yielding components which are reassembled into “as good as new” items.
Download or read book Design for Innovative Value Towards a Sustainable Society written by Mitsutaka Matsumoto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first EcoDesign International Symposium held in 1999, this symposium has led the research and practices of environmentally conscious design of products, services, manufacturing systems, supply chain, consumption, as well as economics and society. EcoDesign 2011 - the 7th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing - was successfully held in the Japanese old capital city of Kyoto, on November 30th – December 2nd, 2011. The subtitle of EcoDesign 2011 is to “design for value innovation towards sustainable society.” During this event, presenters discussed the way to achieve both drastic environmental consciousness and value innovation in order to realise a sustainable society.
Download or read book Responsible Manufacturing written by Ammar Y. Alqahtani and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsible Manufacturing has become an obligation to the environment and to society itself, enforced primarily by customer perspective and governmental regulations on environmental issues. This is mainly driven by the escalating deterioration of the environment, such as diminishing raw material resources, overflowing waste sites, and increasing levels of pollution. Responsible Manufacturing related issues have found a large following in industry and academia, which aim to find solutions to the problems that arise in this newly emerged research area. Problems are widespread, including the ones related to the lifecycle of products, disassembly, material recovery, remanufacturing, and pollution prevention. Organized into sixteen chapters, this book provides a foundation for academicians and practitioners, and addresses several important issues faced by strategic, tactical, and operation planners of Responsible Manufacturing. Using efficient models in a variety of decision-making situations, it provides easy-to-use mathematical and/or simulation modeling-based solution methodologies for the majority of the issues. Features Addresses a variety of state-of-the-art issues in Responsible Manufacturing Highlights how popular industrial engineering and operations research techniques can be effectively exploited to find the most effective solutions to problems Presents how a specific issue can be approached or modeled in a given decision-making situation Covers strategic, tactical, and operational systems issues Provides a foundation for academicians and practitioners interested in building bodies of knowledge in this new and fast-growing area
Download or read book Sustainable Product Design and Development written by Anoop Desai and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the process of sustainable product design and development. It presents design guidelines that help prolong the life of a product and minimize its environmental impact. These guidelines specifically enable product design for end-of-life (EoL) objectives such as reuse, recycling and remanufacturing. Sustainable Product Design and Development also presents mathematical models that will help the designer determine the cost of designing sustainable products. This cost can be computed early during the design stage of a product. Sustainable Product Design and Development presents different ways and means by which a product can address all three pillars of sustainability—environmental conservation, social sustainability, and economic sustainability. Various case studies are incorporated in different chapters. Case studies on designing products for assembly, disassembly and remanufacturing have been presented in their respective chapters. The book also provides an overview of global environmental legislation to help the reader grasp the importance of waste management and sustainable product design. This book is aimed at professionals, engineering students, environmental scientists, and those in the business environment.
Download or read book Master Production Scheduling written by William L. Berry and published by American Production & Inventory Control Society. This book was released on 1979 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability written by Akkucuk, Ulas and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is a growing area of research in ecology, economics, environmental science, business, and cultural studies. Specifically, sustainable waste disposal and management is a growing concern as both solid and liquid wastes are rapidly expanding in direct correlation with population growth and improved economic conditions across regions. The Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability explores the topic of sustainable development in an era where domestic and municipal waste is becoming a concern for both human and environmental health. Highlighting a number of topics relating to pollution, green initiatives, and waste reduction in both the public and private sector, this research-based publication is designed for use by environmental scientists, business executives, researchers, graduate-level students, and policymakers seeking the latest information on sustainability in business, medicine, agriculture, and society.
