EVALUATION OF DESIGN ALTERNATIVES OF SENSORS EMBEDDED AIR CONDITIONERS USING LINEAR PHYSICAL PROGRAMMING

Abstract

This paper proposes an Advanced-Remanufacturing-to-Order-Disassembly-to-Order system which receives sensors and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags embedded End-Of-Life (EOL) products. The received sensors and RFID tags embedded EOL products are disassembled to meet the components demands, remanufactured to meet the products demands and recycled to meet the materials demands. The objective of the proposed model is to determine how many EOL products should be disassembled, remanufactured, recycled, disposed of or stored to meet components, products and materials demands. The model also evaluates different design alternatives of the received EOL products for the ease of disassembly and remanufacturing based on four criteria viz., total profit, quality level, number of disposed items and material value. Linear physical programming is used to solve this multi-criteria decision making problem. An example of Air Conditioners is considered for illustration of the proposed model.