ECM: Supply Chain Management for Electronics Manufacturing with Product Recovery and Remanufacturing

9634914 Uzsoy随着许多国家环保意识和法规的提高，工业界正在考虑在产品使用寿命结束时回收产品，以重新制造成新产品，或重新使用和回收材料和部件，从而大大增加了协调公司供应链的问题。本研究的目的是提供解决方案的供应链协调和设计问题的公司遇到的产品回收操作。研究人员将开发供应链模型，包括回收退回产品、拆卸、再制造、购买新部件、组装和分销。这些模型被表述为线性规划，研究涉及到这些模型的专门求解程序的开发。虽然这些模型的目的是在供应链的基本拓扑给定后用于供应链操作，但研究者还将开发模型来支持供应链设计的长期问题。虽然许多研究的方向是设计无害环境的产品和过程，但再制造和再循环计划的经济可行性也受到实现这些计划的物流和生产系统的设计和控制的影响。本研究解决了这些系统对基于模型的决策支持工具的强烈需求，这些系统对其经济可行性有很大的潜在影响。这些系统经济可行性的提高将有助于更广泛地采用再制造和再循环，这不仅有利于环境，而且有利于整个经济。

9634914 Uzsoy As both environmental awareness and regulation increase in many countries, industry is considering recovering products at the end of their useful life for remanufacturing into new products or to reuse and recycle materials and components, thereby significantly increasing the problem of coordinating a company's supply chain. The goal of this research is to provide solutions to supply chain coordination and design problems encountered by companies with product recovery operations. The investigator will develop supply chain models that include recovery of returned products, disassembly, remanufacturing, purchasing of new components, assembly, and distribution. These models are formulated as linear programs, and the research involves the development of specialized solution procedures for these models. While these models are intended to be used for supply chain operation once the basic topology of the supply chain is given, the investigator will also develop models to support the longer-term issues of supply chain design. Although much research has been directed toward designing environmentally benign products and processes, the economic viability of remanufacturing and recycling schemes is also affected by the design and control of the logistics and production systems in which they are realized. This research addresses a strong need for model-based decision support tools for these systems, with high potential impact on their economic viability. Increased economic viability of these systems will contribute to more widespread adoption of remanufacturing and recycling, with benefits not only to the environment but to the economy as a whole.