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A Business-Mapping Approach To Multi-Criteria Group Selection Of Collection Centers And Recovery Facilities, Kishore Pochampally, Surendra Gupta Oct 2010

A Business-Mapping Approach To Multi-Criteria Group Selection Of Collection Centers And Recovery Facilities, Kishore Pochampally, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

For a prospective reverse supply chain to operate efficiently, the designing of that chain must involve selection of collection centers and recovery facilities that have sufficient success potentials. These success potentials depend heavily on the participation (in the reverse supply chain) of three important groups that have multiple, conflicting, and incommensurate goals. Therefore, the potentials must be evaluated based on the maximized consensus among the three groups, viz., (i) Consumers whose primary concern is convenience, (ii) Local government officials whose primary concern is environmental consciousness, and (iii) Supply chain company executives whose primary concern is profit. In this paper, we …


Design Of An Integrated Component Recovery System, Pitipong Veerakamolmal, Surendra Gupta Oct 2010

Design Of An Integrated Component Recovery System, Pitipong Veerakamolmal, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

This paper presents a two-stage disassembly and retrieval system that provides a unique solution for planning selective component recovery from products. The solution approach uses a process sequencing technique to schedule the operations in both stages to optimize the operational makespan.


A Combinatorial Cost-Benefit Analysis Methodology For Designing Modular Electronic Products For The Environment, Pitipong Veerakamolmal, Surendra Gupta Oct 2010

A Combinatorial Cost-Benefit Analysis Methodology For Designing Modular Electronic Products For The Environment, Pitipong Veerakamolmal, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

This paper presents a technique to analyze the efficiency of designing electronic products for the environment. The efficiency of each design is indicated using a Design for Disassembly Index (DfDI). DfDI uses a disassembly tree (DT) which relies on the product's bill of materials as its structural blueprint. DfDI can be used to compare the efficiency among alternative designs, identifying the best alternative for a product retirement plan. In addition, the index offers designers with an important measure to help improve future products.


A Multi-Phase Mathematical Programming Approach To Strategic Planning Of An Efficient Reverse Supply Chain Network, Kishore Pochampally, Surendra Gupta Oct 2010

A Multi-Phase Mathematical Programming Approach To Strategic Planning Of An Efficient Reverse Supply Chain Network, Kishore Pochampally, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

Strategic planning of a supply chain network is one of the most challenging aspects of reverse logistics. To effectively satisfy drivers such as profitability, environmental regulations and asset recovery, only the most economical used products must be reprocessed in only the recovery facilities that have the potential to efficiently reprocess them. Due to uncertainties in supply, quality and reprocessing times of used-products, the cost-benefit function in the literature that selects the most economical product to reprocess from a set of used-products is not appropriate for direct adoption. Moreover, due to the same uncertainties, any traditional forward supply chain approach to …


System Dynamics Approach In Inventory Management Of End-Of-Life Products In A Disassembly Line, Badr Johar, Surendra Gupta Sep 2010

System Dynamics Approach In Inventory Management Of End-Of-Life Products In A Disassembly Line, Badr Johar, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

A major challenge original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) currently face is how to implement an effective reverse supply chain network that is both cost effective and efficient. The rapid increase in the end-of-life (EOL) products returns from end customers back to origin for recovery or proper disposal can be said one of the main reasons behind this interest. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between all elements of inventory management in the disassembly context using the system dynamic modeling approach to analyze the inventory of disassembled parts. Analysis of different market scenarios is conducted. The system …


Dynamic Programming For Solving Disassembly-To-Order System Under Stochastic Yields, Limited Supply, And Quantity Discount, Amre Massoud, Surendra Gupta Sep 2010

Dynamic Programming For Solving Disassembly-To-Order System Under Stochastic Yields, Limited Supply, And Quantity Discount, Amre Massoud, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

In this paper, we consider the disassembly-to-order (DTO) problem where a variety of returned end-of-life (EOL) products are disassembled in order to satisfy the demand for specified numbers of components. However, a lot of uncertainties exist in the disassembly process that further complicates the process. A DTO model has been developed that takes into consideration the different system uncertainties and variability. The DTO model was solved in multiple periods using dynamic programming (DP). The main objective was to determine optimal number of takeback EOL products in every period from each supplier to fulfill the demand of components while maximizing total …


An Evaluation Of The Effect Of Sensor Embedded Products In Product Disassembly With Precedence Relationships, Mehmet Ilgin, Surendra Gupta Sep 2010

An Evaluation Of The Effect Of Sensor Embedded Products In Product Disassembly With Precedence Relationships, Mehmet Ilgin, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

A promising solution approach to deal with the uncertainty associated with disassembly yield is sensor embedded products (SEPs) which involve sensors implanted during the production process. This study presents a quantitative assessment of the impact of SEPs on the various performance measures of a kanban-controlled air conditioner disassembly line. First, separate design of experiments studies based on orthogonal arrays are carried out for the cases with and without SEPs. Then, the results of paired-t tests comparing two cases based on different performance measures are presented.


Linear Physical Programming For Solving The Multi-Criteria Disassembly-To-Order Problem Under Stochastic Yields, Limited Supply, And Quantity Discount, Amre Massoud, Surendra Gupta Sep 2010

Linear Physical Programming For Solving The Multi-Criteria Disassembly-To-Order Problem Under Stochastic Yields, Limited Supply, And Quantity Discount, Amre Massoud, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

This paper focuses on the disassembly-to-order (DTO) problem. End-of-life (EOL) products are purchased from a number of suppliers in order to be disassembled into individual components to satisfy the demand for specified numbers of components. However, there are a lot of uncertainties that complicates the process. Previous work in the literature solved the DTO problem under multiple uncertainties and a single objective. Other models solved the multicriteria DTO problem with a single uncertainty. This paper develops a multi-criteria DTO model that takes into consideration multiple system uncertainties and solves it using Linear Physical Programming (LPP). The main objective was to …


An Optimization Framework For Advanced Disassembly/Repair-To-Order Systems With Remaining-Life Adjustment, Onder Ondemir, Surendra Gupta Sep 2010

An Optimization Framework For Advanced Disassembly/Repair-To-Order Systems With Remaining-Life Adjustment, Onder Ondemir, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

Due to environmental awareness and realization of cost savings, disassembly-to-order (DTO) concept has become popular. One of the main obstacles to making optimal DTO decisions is the uncertainty involved in end-of-life products (EOLPs). This uncertainty is due to the lack of information about the condition and the quantity of EOLPs returned. This uncertainty is removed by advanced disassembly/repair-to-order systems utilizing sensors to monitor the products in their life-cycle. Sensor technology enables remaining life estimation, thus allows advanced DTO models to deal with sophisticated component and product demands with remaining life adjustment. This paper presents an optimization framework for advanced disassembly/repair-to-order …


Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Sensor-Embedded Products Based Disassembly-To-Order System, Onder Ondemir, Surendra Gupta Sep 2010

Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Sensor-Embedded Products Based Disassembly-To-Order System, Onder Ondemir, Surendra Gupta

Surendra M. Gupta

Due to environmental awareness and realization of cost savings, disassembly-to-order (DTO) concept has become popular. One of the main obstacles to making optimal DTO decisions is the uncertainty involved in end-of-life products (EOLPs). This uncertainty is due to the lack of information about the condition and the quantity of EOLPs returned. This uncertainty can be removed by sensors monitoring the products in their life-cycle. However, DTO systems utilizing these sensors will be more costly to establish and maintain. This paper presents economic justification of establishing advanced disassembly-to-order (DTO) systems in which sensor-embedded end-of-life products are disassembled in order to fulfill …