Determining optimum and suboptimum disassembly sequences with an application to a cell phone

Author

Lambert, A.J.D. ; Gupta, Surendra M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Technol. Manage., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2005

fDate

19-21 July 2005

Firstpage

260

Lastpage

265

Abstract

We study the disassembly process of a moderately complex consumer product (cell phone) consisting of 25 components. The investigation involves a heuristically solved disassembly line balancing problem and the determination of an appropriate disassembly sequence influenced by sequence-dependent costs, which is based on a novel combination of exact and heuristic algorithms. The issue of generating various suboptimum solutions to cope with multiple optimization criteria is also discussed

Keywords

assembling; consumer products; mobile handsets; optimisation; recycling; cell phone; disassembly line balancing problem; disassembly process; moderately complex consumer product; optimum disassembly sequences; sequence-dependent costs; suboptimum disassembly sequences; Assembly systems; Cellular phones; Consumer products; Costs; Heuristic algorithms; Integer linear programming; Laboratories; Manufacturing processes; Technology management; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Assembly and Task Planning: From Nano to Macro Assembly and Manufacturing, 2005. (ISATP 2005). The 6th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9080-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISATP.2005.1511483

Filename

1511483