Multi-kanban mechanism for appliance disassembly

Gun Udomsawat; Surendra M. Gupta

doi:10.1117/12.631026

7 November 2005 Multi-kanban mechanism for appliance disassembly

Gun Udomsawat, Surendra M. Gupta

Proceedings Volume 5997, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing V; 599704 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.631026
Event: Optics East 2005, 2005, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The use of household appliances continues to rise every year. A significant number of End-Of-Life (EOL) appliances are generated because of the introduction of newer models that are more attractive, efficient and affordable. Others are, of course, generated when they become non-functional. Many regulations encourage recycling of EOL appliances to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills. In addition, EOL appliances offer the appliance manufacturing and remanufacturing industries a source of less expensive raw materials and components. For this reason product recovery has become a subject of interest during the past decade. In this paper, we study the disassembly line for appliance disassembly. We discuss and incorporate some of the complications that are inherent in disassembly line including product arrival, demand arrival, inventory fluctuation and production control mechanisms. We show how to overcome such complications by implementing a multi-kanban system in the appliance disassembly line setting. The multi-kanban system (MKS) relies on dynamic routing of kanbans according to the state of the system. We investigate the multi-kanban mechanism using simulation and explore the effect of product mix on performance of the traditional push system (TPS) and MKS in terms of controlling the system's inventory while attempting to achieve a decent customer service level.

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Gun Udomsawat and Surendra M. Gupta "Multi-kanban mechanism for appliance disassembly", Proc. SPIE 5997, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing V, 599704 (7 November 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.631026

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