Decision rules for recycling returned products

International Journal of Sustainable Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 208-219

  Azadivar, Farhad ^a   Ordoobadi, Sharon ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

after market products; re manufacturing; recycling returned products; sustainability

Indexed keywords

AFTER-MARKET PRODUCTS; BREAK-EVEN POINT; COMPUTER BASED SIMULATION; DECISION MODELS; DECISION RULES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION RATE; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE DECISION; RE-MANUFACTURING; USEFUL LIFE;

PROFITABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

RECYCLING;

EID: 84865266959     PISSN: 19397038     EISSN: 19397046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2011.618561     Document Type: Article

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