A Sustainable Production Scheduling with Backorders under Different Forms of Rework Process and Green Investment

Abstract

Rework is currently a necessity for businesses and commercial organizations across the world. It is only beneficial in tackling climate change if the process emits less greenhouse gases than would otherwise be emitted. This study designs an optimal production scheduling model to reduce both carbon emissions during the processes of production, transport and storage, and setup cost by leveraging on green technology efforts in an imperfect production process where a fraction of items is erroneous so that the firm may run out of inventory. The producer implements a rework strategy to rectify the flawed products, anda flexible rework rate is offered since the rework might be executed on various schemes. The flexible rework allows the producer to choose therework rate, which can differ from the production rate, as well as the rework process itself, which can be asynchronous or synchronous.The two forms of green investments: quadratic and exponential are considered in the study. The main point of the study is to derive a solution procedure of the various problem settings associated with the rework rate, rework process and green investment. The findings suggest that developing the optimal production schedule (lot-sizes, backorders, setup cost and green investment amount) can lower the manufacturing sector’s excessive ecological carbon emissions. The findings also support the idea that making green investments is the most cost-effective way to cut carbon emissions and setup cost simultaneously.