Sustainable production and consumption have been sought in the manufacturing industry in recent years, and the exploration of circular systems for collecting and reusing components supplied to the market has advanced. Traditional circular models assume the reuse of parts within the same product category, often leading to the disposal of insufficiently utilized components. This study proposes recovery and reuse method aimed at maximizing the social contribution by enabling the cross-category reuse of modules that are designed for multiple product categories. In addition, the effectiveness of the plan in small-scale problems is verified.
IKEZAWA et al. (Wed,) studied this question.