Substitution policies for a hybrid system

Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d10003113

Title:

Creator:

Gupta, Surendra M. (Author)

Publisher:

January 01, 2000

Type of resource:

Text

Genre:

Articles

Format:

electronic

Digital origin:

born digital

Abstract/Description:

As a consequence of environmental necessities, reuse of products has recently become an important issue for production and planning. Many companies are involved in retrieving used products, where they repair, refurbish and upgrade the products in order to sell them for profit. However, the regulations for many markets do not allow manufacturers to sell remanufactured products under the same pretence as new products. Therefore, companies are forced to differentiate both the recovery and the sales activities for the remanufactured products from that of the new products. In this paper, we study the impact of this differentiation. We particularly look at the feasibility of substituting one version of the product with the other in order to satisfy the demand. In the first phase of the study, we try to find optimal switching functions for substitution decisions using a Markov decision process. In the second phase, we define several control policies and compare them with respect to the expected total cost function of the system.

Subjects and keywords:

Production engineering
Remanufacturing
hybrid systems
optimal switching policies
Engineering

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d10003113

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