Abstract
Due to the stringent awareness toward the preservation and resuscitation of natural resources and the potential economic benefits, designing sustainable manufacturing enterprises has become a critical issue in recent years. This presents different challenges in coordinating the activities inside the manufacturing systems with the entire closed-loop supply chain. In this paper, a mixed-integer mathematical model for designing a hybrid-manufacturing-remanufacturing system in a closed-loop supply chain is presented. Noteworthy, the operational planning of a cellular hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system is coordinated with the tactical planning of a closed-loop supply chain. To improve the flexibility and reliability in the cellular hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system, alternative process routings and contingency process routings are considered. The mathematical model in this paper, to the best of our knowledge, is the first integrated model in the design of hybrid cellular manufacturing systems which considers main and contingency process routings as well as reliability of the manufacturing system.
Highlights
Sustainability is one of the significant criteria for companies to be successful in their promotion and selling activities
In order to build a sustainable manufacturing enterprise incorporating the manufacturing system and its closed-loop supply chain, we presented a mixed-integer programming model for the design of a hybrid cellular manufacturing-remanufacturing model
Several activities are considered in the closed-loop supply chain of the model including setup for disassembly of the returned products, disassembly of the returned products, remanufacturing of the returned products with the “high-quality” levels, and the disposal of the “low-quality” returned products
Summary
Sustainability is one of the significant criteria for companies to be successful in their promotion and selling activities. In designing sustainable manufacturing systems, hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing systems can be applied because of their social, economic and environmental impacts. In recent years, designing hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing systems has become a topic of substantial interest due to economic opportunities, social incentives, and environmental legislation. There are many companies in the fields of automobile parts, industrial engines, computers, cellphones, cameras, and copiers which adopted products recovery activities such as remanufacturing as a value-added strategy including D&V Electronics, JOHN DEERE Tractors and Dozers, Caterpillar, OEM Remanufacturing, Dell, HP, Dexter, Xerox, and Kodak. 5 including 7 different scenario problems to investigate the impacts of changing the number of time periods, number of the cells, number of the machines, and number of the returned products on the objective function value as well as the solution time.
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