Strategic design of multiple lifecycle products for remanufacturing operations
研究了原始设备制造商在再制造中的产品设计策略，分析了行业节奏、竞争程度和产品原始市场价值如何影响最优设计选择，关键取决于每种设计在特定市场条件下能提供的盈利生命周期数量。
Based on observations from practice, this study analytically investigates product design philosophies for remanufacturing original equipment manufacturers to determine how the optimal design choice depends on market conditions. Though designing to increase the level of remanufacturability can yield increased profitability by lowering remanufacturing costs, several complicating factors exist. We examine how these market factors—industry clockspeed, the level of competition, and the product’s original market value—interact with characteristics whose values are determined by the choice of design paradigm: time-to-market, manufacturing cost, and remanufacturing cost. A key determinant of the optimal design choice is the number of profitable lifecycles that each design choice provides under specific combinations of values for the market factors.