Decision-Making Criteria for Sustainable Remanufacturing

Abstract

Due to significant economic and environmental benefits, remanufacturing has been deployed and enhanced in various market sectors. Determining product parts whether they should be reused, repaired, or disposed is an important task in the remanufacturing. There are a variety of criteria such as cost optimization, minimizing disposed items, and so on. Many researches considered cases with one or two criteria while it is possible to have more factors that should be considered in an industrial case. In this chapter, highlighting on sustainability, available decision-making criteria are reviewed and categorized into groups, based on the objective in the literature, if they are economical or environmental focused. Additionally, the decision-making criteria are classified if they are related to products, processes, and people in the system. Decision makers can select the criteria based on the sections which they concentrate on. The decision criteria are covered by various aspects to support decision makers to set product recovery objectives easily and quickly. Criteria can be conflicted with each other to be minimizing cost and maximizing product quality, simultaneously. This chapter investigates conflicting criteria to assist decision makers in selecting a decision method to determine product recovery option. In future work, the decision-making criteria will be identified to develop a framework by integrating an intelligent decision-making agent system.