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Introduction to Remanufacturing

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Optimisation of Robotic Disassembly for Remanufacturing

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This chapter briefly explains remanufacturing and its motivation and introduces the main classes of optimisation problems in remanufacturing.

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  1. School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

    Yuanjun Laili

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Yongjing Wang

  3. School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

    Yilin Fang

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Duc Truong Pham

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Laili, Y., Wang, Y., Fang, Y., Pham, D.T. (2022). Introduction to Remanufacturing. In: Optimisation of Robotic Disassembly for Remanufacturing. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81799-2_1

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