Abstract

This paper deals with a cost management problem of a remanufacturing system with stochastic demand. We model the system with consideration for two types of inventories. One is the actual product inventory in the factory. The other is the virtual inventory that is being used by the customer. For this virtual inventory, it should be required to consider an operational cost that we need in order to observe and check the quantity of the inventory. We call this the virtual inventory cost and model the system by including it. We define the state of the remanufacturing system by the two inventory levels. It is assumed that the cost function is composed of various cost factors such as holding, backlog and manufacturing costs. We obtain the optimal policy that minimizes the expected average cost per period. Numerical results reveal the effects of the factors on the optimal policy.

Notes

Originally published in the Proceedings of the SPIE International Conference on Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing V, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 140-145, October 23-24, 2005

Keywords

Remanufacturing system, Product life cycle, Optimal control

Subject Categories

Production engineering

Disciplines

Engineering

Publisher

SPIE

Publication Date

2005

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Copyright 2005, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers

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Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers


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