Product Family Design and Recovery for Lifecycle

摘要: Product family design via component sharing is a widely practiced approach for offering sufficient variety to the market in an economical way. Most of previous research has focused on benefits product and manufacturing stages—early stages lifecycle. This chapter highlights another important aspect design—the impact end-of-life management—by quantitative model evaluating from perspective. The identifies optimal strategy managing take-back recovery by use mixed integer programming, thereby assessing terms its profitability management. A study smartphone presented, results show that can assess highlight preferred alternatives at various degrees sharing.