Article ID: | iaor19991132 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 95 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 313 |
End Page Number: | 324 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1996 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Richter Knut |
Keywords: | remanufacturing, economic order, waste management |
In a previous paper the author discussed an economic order quantity (EOQ) model in which the stationary demand can be satisfied by newly made products and by repaired used products. In the modelled situation some share of the used products is collected and later repaired; the other products are disposed outside according to some waste disposal rate. In the present paper this model is extended to the case of variable setup numbers