Title :
Comparing different disassembly strategies
Author :
Lou, Sheldon ; Leu, Jack ; Jorjani, Soheila
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Bus. Adm., California State Univ., San Marcos, CA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, the authors present an AHP (analytic hierarchy process) approach to evaluating various disassembly strategies for a product take-back program. They establish criteria such as labor costs, transportation costs, and pollution to distinguish between the environmental costs to the society and the costs to the firm. Disassembly strategies are then compared with respect to those criteria. An example from an electronics company is used
Keywords :
assembling; commerce; costing; economics; electronics industry; pollution; recycling; analytic hierarchy process; disassembly strategies; electronics company; environmental costs; labor costs; pollution; product take-back program; transportation costs; Computer aided manufacturing; Consumer electronics; Costs; Environmental economics; Law; Legal factors; Plastics; Pollution; Recycling; Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics and the Environment, 1996. ISEE-1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2950-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISEE.1996.500401
