Ecological Product Design Value and Remanufacturing for Green Short Life-Cycle Product with Warranty-Dependent Demand in Supply Chain

Due to environmental warming and consciousness, business globalization and shortened product life-cycle, numerous attentions have been paid to ecology protection, resource saving and effective operations management. Green product and production processes designs have significant influence on the environment and resource re-usage. The relevant EU regulations, such as WEEE, RoSH and EuP, have been encouraging the enterprises to have a friendly way to the earth and reduce the greenhouse effects by controlling the disposals and the gas emission. These green product design and remanufacturing efforts are investigated in the development of an integrated production inventory model. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the theory.