Title :
Evaluating Costs and Environmental Impacts of Production Policies in Recycling System
Author :
Mizuno, Akihiko ; Takahashi, Katsuhiko ; Morikawa, Katsumi
Author_Institution :
Hiroshima Univ.
Abstract :
The paper deals with a recycling system that consists of a factory, a market, and an external. In the system, products are manufactured from parts and remanufactured from collected products. Collected products are decomposed at a decomposition process and classified into wastes to be disposed, parts to be used at the process for producing products, and disabled products to be used at the process for remanufacturing products. This paper develops production policies for a recycling system with manufacturing/remanufacturing and evaluates the developed policies by measuring the costs and environmental impacts via mean value analysis
Keywords :
manufacturing processes; recycling; waste disposal; cost evaluation; decomposition process; environmental impacts; mean value analysis; product remanufacturing; production policies; recycling system; waste disposal; Algorithm design and analysis; Costs; Energy resources; Manufacturing systems; Production facilities; Production systems; Pulp manufacturing; Recycling; Virtual manufacturing; Waste disposal; Environmental Impacts; Mean value analysis; Policies; Recycling system;
Conference_Titel :
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2005. Eco Design 2005. Fourth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0081-3
DOI :
10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619193
