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CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 123-138Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10100-015-0428-1
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Production planning and control; Remanufacturing; Master production scheduling; Stochastic routings
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Remanufacturing is an important source of sustainable development. Remanufactured products have proven to be high quality and low cost. Due to their unique characteristics, remanufacturing processes have many differences compared to manufacturing processes. These characteristics, which make remanufacturing complex, require good performance from Production Planning and Control (PPC) activities. The goal of the paper is to propose a mathematical model for disassembly master production scheduling considering stochastic routings in the remanufacturing environment. The proposed model is based on stochastic dynamic programming and it is applied to a real case of automotive clutch remanufacturing. The results contribute to the development of theory and practice by filling a gap in knowledge of the use of PPC systems, developing a mathematical method that can be easily implemented in a spreadsheet. The findings also show some decisions that are counterintuitive. For example, in some situations disassemble more products than necessary to meet the demand can result in a lower expected total cost.
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