Used product remanufacturing information gathering system based on multi-agent

Remanufacturing represents a higher form of reuse by focusing on value-added recovery, rather than materials recovery. However, the management of remanufacturing information can differ greatly from traditional manufacturing. The information of used products are more complex for remanufacturing due to uncertainties from stochastic product returns, imbalances in return and demand rates, and the unknown condition of returned products. The technology of multi-agent is a good method of human interaction with machine; it can gather complex information. According to the analysis of the information that impacts on remanufacturing, an information gathering system model of remanufacturing products based on multi-agent system was present in this paper.