Application of Quality Function Deployment for recycling of SLI batteries in reverse supply chain

P. Sasikumar, G. Kannan, V. P. Vinay, A. Noorul Haq, V. Balasubramanian

Abstract

Now a days remanufacturing / recycling has become renowned as a popular option in many reverse logistics settings. In remanufacturing / recycling, firms take back products at the end of their use, disassemble them to obtain components and reassemble these components into a “good as new” remanufactured product. Though the technical solutions for the recovery of products from waste materials become more and more available, it is often imperative to adopt the view point of an individual firm and ask whether it would be wise to engage in product recovery activities or not. In the context of rapidly changing perspectives in the field of reverse logistics, the solution of a great variety of engineering problems calls for innovative application of knowledge and requires logical thinking, analytical capability, reasoning and judgment. In this paper the environmental impact of recycled SLI (Starting, Lighting and Ignition) batteries are considered and used for the disposition of used SLI batteries with the help of reverse logistics. Based on an extensive literature review, it is proposed to use a methodology for applying Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for the development of a new reverse logistics network with the environmental analysis of used SLI batteries. This methodology will incorporate environmental aspects into QFD to handle the environmental and traditional product quality requirements simultaneously.

Keywords

SLI batteries; Remanufacturing / Recycling; Reverse Logistics and QFD

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