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We study the competition between two remanufacturers in the acquisition of used products and the sales of remanufactured products. One firm has a market advantage; we consider two separate cases where either firm could have an acquisition advantage. The problem is formulated as a simultaneous...
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Corporate priorities, government policies, and public demand are driving companies across the world to improve their environmental and social footprint. In South Africa, the Petco Producer Responsibility Organisation NPC is scaling up the recycling of plastics, while improving livelihoods for...
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Remanufacturing is an industrial process turning used products into a condition of like new or better. Remanufacturing … impact of products over the life-cycle. However, not many products are designed for remanufacturing, and there is rarely any … feedback from remanufacturing to design. Since design for remanufacturing is not applied at most manufacturing companies, there …
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collecting the cores. This can support the OEM’s decision to engage in remanufacturing even in the case of a collection cost … disadvantage. We show that – counterintuitively – the OEM may take up remanufacturing in situations where the IR would not. While … the introduction of proprietary parts is detrimental to both IRs and consumers, OEM remanufacturing softens this loss for …
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With strong government advocacy and encouragement, many manufacturers hope to enter the remanufacturing market …. Manufacturers who have entered the remanufacturing market hope to increase their profits through effective decision-making. Using …
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Background: Remanufacturing products for sustainability involves layout and production planning, tools and equipment … the context of I4.0 and their effects represented in DES models with applicability in remanufacturing and production line … occupation, and the statistical analysis of the process capability. Scenario five achieved the objective of remanufacturing 40 …
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Purpose Information-facilitated product recovery system (IFPRS) has captivated industry attention and has developed into a matter of consideration among the researchers because of enhanced climate concerns, jurisdictive logics and societal liabilities. Although IFPRS implementation has become an...
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This study explores Industry 4.0 in the Australian context, where manufacturing is dominated by smaller firms servicing the domestic market. We interviewed 20 advanced Australian manufacturers from diverse fields, capturing detailed descriptions of the Industry 4.0 implementation process. We...
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In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices and adversely affect the employment share of low-skilled labor. We show that these effects hold only, when comparing hardly-robotizing with highly-robotizing sectors and...
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