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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 …
Pricing End-Of-Life Components, Surendra Gupta, Srikanth Vadde, Sagar Kamarthi
Pricing End-Of-Life Components, Surendra Gupta, Srikanth Vadde, Sagar Kamarthi
Surendra M. Gupta
The main objective of a product recovery facility (PRF) is to disassemble end-of-life (EOL) products and sell the reclaimed components for reuse and recovered materials in second-hand markets. Variability in the inflow of EOL products and fluctuation in demand for reusable components contribute to the volatility in inventory levels. To stay profitable the PRFs ought to manage their inventory by regulating the price appropriately to minimize holding costs. This work presents two deterministic pricing models for a PRF bounded by environmental regulations. In the first model, the demand is price dependent and in the second, the demand is both price …