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Multi-Kanban Mechanism For Appliance Disassembly, Surendra Gupta, Gun Udomsawat
Multi-Kanban Mechanism For Appliance Disassembly, Surendra Gupta, Gun Udomsawat
Surendra M. Gupta
The use of household appliances continues to rise every year. A significant number of End-Of-Life (EOL) appliances are generated because of the introduction of newer models that are more attractive, efficient and affordable. Others are, of course, generated when they become non-functional. Many regulations encourage recycling of EOL appliances to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills. In addition, EOL appliances offer the appliance manufacturing and remanufacturing industries a source of less expensive raw materials and components. For this reason product recovery has become a subject of interest during the past decade. In this paper, we study the disassembly …