Analytical Approaches for Assessing the Revenue Aspects and Environmental Impacts of Demanufacturing

本研究的目标是确保逆向供应链的经济和环境效率。拆解是指对报废产品的剩余经济和环境价值进行回收，对其进行拆解并回收部件和材料进行再利用。本研究将著重于发展与分析整合的供需管理策略，以及逆向供应链的拆解与回收作业管理政策。在实践中，将明确考虑影响拆解复杂性的因素。这些因素涉及处置市场的供应特征、报废产品的物料清单结构、拆卸和回收成本结构以及再利用市场的需求特征。这项研究将集中于开发分析模型和特定领域的解决方案方法，以提供分析和计算工具，以便比较替代综合供需管理战略和拆卸和回收作业管理政策对经济和环境绩效的影响。这项研究对于分析环境立法倡议和制定公共政策，以设计和运行经济上健全和环境上安全的去制造逆向供应链非常重要。此外，由于该研究议程是与佛罗里达州当地行业合作伙伴合作制定的，因此该研究将有助于确定新兴的最佳行业实践，并促进行业与学术合作伙伴之间的更强互动。工程专业的研究生和本科生将受益于计划中的教材开发和行业拓展活动。此外，为学生组织开发环境导向的服务项目将有助于提高未来几代工程师的环境意识。

The goal of this research is to ensure the economical and environmental efficiency of reverse supply chains for demanufacturing. Demanufacturing is concerned with the reclamation of the residual economical and environmental value of end-of-life products by disassembling them and recovering components and materials for reuse. This research will focus on the development and analysis of integrated supply and demand management strategies as well as disassembly and recovery operations management policies for reverse supply chains for demanufacturing. Explicit consideration will be given to factors that influence the complexity of demanufacturing in practice. These factors pertain to the characteristics of supply in the disposal market, bill-of-material structure of the end-of-life product, disassembly and recovery cost structures, and characteristics of demand in the reuse market. This research will concentrate on the development of analytical models and domain-specific solution methodologies to provide analytical and computational tools that allow for a comparison of economical and environmental performance implications of alternative integrated supply and demand management strategies and disassembly and recovery operations management policies for demanufacturing. This research will be important for the analysis of environmental legislative initiatives and the development of public policies for the design and operation of economically sound and environmentally safe reverse supply chains for demanufacturing. Moreover, as this research agenda has been developed in collaboration with local industry partners in Florida, the research will help with the identification of emerging best industry practice and foster stronger interactions between the industry and academic partners. Graduate and undergraduate engineering students will benefit from the planned educational material development and industry outreach activities. In addition, the development of environmentally oriented service projects for student organizations will help raise the environmental awareness of future generations of engineers.