Assembly strategies for remanufacturing systems with variable quality returns

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-85

  Jin, Xiaoning ^a   Hu, S Jack ^a   Ni, Jun ^a   Xiao, Guoxian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly systems; manufacturing planning; Markov decision process; optimal control

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY COSTS; ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; CONTROL POLICY; COST PARAMETERS; CUSTOMER ORDERS; HIGH QUALITY; HOLDING COSTS; LOW QUALITIES; MANUFACTURING PLANNING; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MODULAR PRODUCTS; MULTIPLE CLASS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTATIONS; OPTIMAL CONTROL POLICY; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; PENALTY COST; PRODUCT RETURNS; REASSEMBLY; REMANUFACTURING SYSTEM; STATE-DEPENDENT;

CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION;

COSTS;

EID: 84871775397     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2012.2217741     Document Type: Article

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