TY - JOUR
T1 - Integration of disassembly leveling and bin assignment for demanufacturing automation
AU - Gao, Meimei
AU - Zhou, Meng Chu
AU - Caudill, Reggie J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received November 1, 2001; revised May 18, 2002. This paper was recommended for publication by Associate Editor C. Chu and Editor N. Viswanadham upon evaluation of the reviewers’ comments. This work was supported in part by the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology via MERC at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), and the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education via the NJ I-TOWER project at NJIT. This work was also supported in part by AT&T, IBM, Lucent Technologies, and Pana-sonic. This paper was presented in part at the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, DC, May 13, 2002.
PY - 2002/12
Y1 - 2002/12
N2 - As an integral part of a product life cycle, demanufacturing is a process of disassembling a product and assigning collection bins for the resultant subassemblies and parts, which are then reused, remanufactured, reengineered, or disposed of. This paper proposes an algorithm to determine disassembly levels and bins in an integrated way to maximize the profit from a used product through balancing the resource invested in disassembly processes, the return, and the environmental impact caused by them. The algorithm utilizes the information from a computer-aided design system and requires minimal user input with the computational complexity of O(n2 + mn), where n is the number of parts and final subassemblies in a product, and m is the number of collection bins. It has been successfully used in the development of a demanufacturing stage of a multi-lifecycle assessment and analysis tool. The benefit of the proposed algorithm is illustrated through a laptop computer example.
AB - As an integral part of a product life cycle, demanufacturing is a process of disassembling a product and assigning collection bins for the resultant subassemblies and parts, which are then reused, remanufactured, reengineered, or disposed of. This paper proposes an algorithm to determine disassembly levels and bins in an integrated way to maximize the profit from a used product through balancing the resource invested in disassembly processes, the return, and the environmental impact caused by them. The algorithm utilizes the information from a computer-aided design system and requires minimal user input with the computational complexity of O(n2 + mn), where n is the number of parts and final subassemblies in a product, and m is the number of collection bins. It has been successfully used in the development of a demanufacturing stage of a multi-lifecycle assessment and analysis tool. The benefit of the proposed algorithm is illustrated through a laptop computer example.
KW - Demanufacturing system design
KW - Disassembly automation
KW - Lifecycle engineering
KW - System optimization
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U2 - 10.1109/TRA.2002.805650
DO - 10.1109/TRA.2002.805650
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036967254
SN - 1042-296X
VL - 18
SP - 867
EP - 874
JO - IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
JF - IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
IS - 6
ER -