Remanufacturing modeling and analysis [electronic resource] / Mehmet Ali Ilgın, Surendra M. Gupta.
New, Now, Next. Consumers' ever growing appetite to acquire new products and their short courtship with them has kept manufacturers busy not only expending resources at an alarming rate, but also depleting these resources and giving rise to waste and pollution at a correspondingly increasing an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | New, Now, Next. Consumers' ever growing appetite to acquire new products and their short courtship with them has kept manufacturers busy not only expending resources at an alarming rate, but also depleting these resources and giving rise to waste and pollution at a correspondingly increasing and disturbing rate. Traditional manufacturing methods that use mainly virgin materials to produce new products and dispose of the used products at the end of their lives are quickly becoming unsustainable. In addition, regulations that require manufacturers to take back products and dispose of them res. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 413 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1439863083 9781439863084 9781280122514 128012251X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |