Title :
Used product remanufacturing information gathering system based on multi-agent
Author :
Chunfa, Li ; Jingfeng, Li ; Jianjian, Li
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., Tianjin Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
Remanufacturing represents a higher form of reuse by focusing on value-added recovery, rather than materials recovery. However, the management of remanufacturing information can differ greatly from traditional manufacturing. The information of used products are more complex for remanufacturing due to uncertainties from stochastic product returns, imbalances in return and demand rates, and the unknown condition of returned products. The technology of multi-agent is a good method of human interaction with machine; it can gather complex information. According to the analysis of the information that impacts on remanufacturing, an information gathering system model of remanufacturing products based on multi-agent system was present in this paper.
Keywords :
manufactured products; manufacturing data processing; multi-agent systems; human interaction; materials recovery; multiagent system; remanufacturing products; returned products; stochastic product returns; used product remanufacturing information gathering system; value-added recovery; Information analysis; Information management; Management information systems; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Multiagent systems; Production planning; Reverse logistics; Timing; Uncertainty; Information gathering system; Multi-agent system; Remanufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management and Engineering (ICIME), 2010 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5263-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5265-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICIME.2010.5477758
