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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462486803321

Autore

Ilgin Mehmet Ali.

Titolo

Remanufacturing modeling and analysis / / Mehmet Ali Ilgin, Surendra M. Gupta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2012

ISBN

0-429-10483-9

1-280-12251-X

9786613526373

1-4398-6308-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (419 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GuptaSurendra M

Disciplina

658.5

Soggetti

Remanufacturing

Manufacturing processes - Environmental aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Background -- pt. 2. Design issues -- pt. 3. Planning issues -- pt. 4. Processing issues -- pt. 5. Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

New, Now, Next. Consumers' ever growing appetite to acquire new products and their short courtship with them has kept manufacturers busy not only expending resources at an alarming rate, but also depleting these resources and giving rise to waste and pollution at a correspondingly increasing and disturbing rate. Traditional manufacturing methods that use mainly virgin materials to produce new products and dispose of the used products at the end of their lives are quickly becoming unsustainable. In addition, regulations that require manufacturers to take back products and dispose of them res