In selective serial disassembly sequence planning, when the target node (component) is reached, the selective disassembly task is completed and the refurbished component is repaired, reused or remanufactured. Since the efficient utilization of existi...
In two-sided disassembly lines, stations are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the conveyor, which is suitable for large-sized waste products. During the disassembly process, evenly assigning parts to workstations while satisfying various const...
Concerns have been increasing regarding the environmental sustainability of disassembly activities that take place in various recovery operations at end of life stage of products, and subsequently, disassembly activities have been gaining increased e...
Disassembly is an indispensable part in remanufacturing process. Disassembly line balancing and disassembly mode have direct effects on the disassembly efficiency and resource utilization. Recent researches about disassembly line balancing problem (D...
Robots are now widely used in product disassembly lines, which significantly improves end-of-life (EOL) product disassembly efficiency. Most of the current research on disassembly line balancing problems focuses on decomposing one product. More than...
Disassembly is a necessary link in reverse supply chain and plays a significant role in green manufacturing and sustainable development. However, the mixed-model disassembly of multiple types of retired mechanical products is hard to be implemented b...
New concepts such as low-carbon economy, low-carbon production, low-carbon living and even low-carbon cities have become popular topics in environmental protection. The disassembly line part of reverse logistics is accompanied by high carbon emission...
In order to protect the environment, an increasing number of people are paying attention to the recycling and remanufacturing of EOL (End-of-Life) products. Furthermore, many companies aim to establish their own closed-loop supply chains, encouraging...
Recycling end-of-life products is essential for reducing environmental impact and promoting resource reuse. In the realm of remanufacturing, researchers are increasingly concentrating on the challenge of the disassembly line balancing problem (DLBP),...
Disassembly lines are widely utilized to disassemble end-of-life products. Most of the research focuses on the complete disassembly of obsolete products. However, there is a lack of studies on profit and on carbon emission saved. Hence, this study co...
In a human-robot collaborative disassembly line, multiple people and robots collaboratively perform disassembly operations at each workstation. Due to dynamic factors, such as end-of-life product quality and human capabilities, the line balancing pro...
Remanufacturing prolongs the life cycle and increases the residual value of various end-of-life (EoL) products. As an inevitable process in remanufacturing, disassembly plays an essential role in retrieving the high-value and useable components of Eo...
With growing concerns about the depletion of rare-earth elements, managing End-of-Life products has become a key sustainability initiative in the supply chains of global corporations. Recycling, the process of dismantling, separating, and recovery of...
End-of-life (EOL) electromechanical products often have multiple failure characteristics and material hazard attributes. These factors create uncertain disassembly task sequences and affect the remanufacturing cost, environmental sustainability, and...
Product disassembly is an effective means of waste recycling and reutilization that has received much attention recently. In terms of disassembly efficiency, the number of disassembly skills possessed by workers plays a crucial role in improving disa...
For environmentally conscious and sustainable manufacturing, many more manufacturers are acting to recycle and remanufacture their post-consumed products. The most critical process of remanufacturing is disassembly, since it allows for the selective...
As resources become increasingly scarce and environmental demands grow, the recycling of products at the end of their lifecycle becomes crucial. Disassembly, as a key stage in the recycling process, plays a decisive role in the sustainability of the...
Disassembling discarded electrical products plays a crucial role in product recycling, contributing to resource conservation and environmental protection. While disassembly lines are progressively transitioning to automation, manual or human–ro...
In the context of sustainable development strategies, the recycling of discarded products has become increasingly important with the development of electronic technology. Choosing the human–robot collaborative disassembly mode is the key to opt...
Nowadays, there is a great deal of interest in the development of practical optimization models and intelligent solution algorithms for solving disassembly-line balancing problems. Based on the importance of energy efficiency of product disassembly a...
In recent years, the global resource shortage has become a serious issue. Recycling end-of-life (EOL) products is conducive to resource reuse and circular economy and can mitigate the resource shortage issue. The disassembly of EOL products is the fi...
The scheduling of disassembly lines is of great importance to achieve optimized productivity. In this paper, we address the Hybrid Disassembly Line Balancing Problem that combines linear disassembly lines and U-shaped disassembly lines, considering m...
Large-volume waste products, such as refrigerators and automobiles, not only consume resources but also pollute the environment easily. A two-sided disassembly line is the most effective method to deal with large-volume waste products. How to reduce...
Disassembly line balancing (DLB) is a crucial optimization item in the recycling and remanufacturing of waste products. Considering the variations in the number of operators assigned to each station, this study investigates DLBs with six distinct sta...
The remanufacturing of end-of-life products is an effective approach to alleviating resource shortages, environmental pollution, and global warming. As the initial step in the remanufacturing process, the quality and efficiency of disassembly have a...
The two-sided disassembly line is popular for its high-efficiency disassembly of large-volume end-of-life products. However, in the process of two-sided disassembly, some parts and components need to be disassembled in parallel, and the uncertainty o...
A mixed-flow human–machine collaborative disassembly line balancing problem is introduced, considering the various recycling methods for waste products and the relationship between the attributes of each product part and the corresponding disas...
With the sharp increase in the number of products and the development of the remanufacturing industry, disassembly lines have become the mainstream recycling method. In view of the insufficient research on the layout of multi-form disassembly lines a...
This paper addresses the multi-operator human–robot collaborative disassembly line balancing problem aimed at minimizing the number of workstations, workstation idle time, and disassembly costs, considering the diversity of end-of-life products...
Optimizing multi-factory remanufacturing systems with social welfare considerations presents critical challenges in task allocation and process coordination. This study addresses this gap by proposing a hybrid disassembly line balancing and multi-fac...
With the growing adoption of circular economy principles in manufacturing, efficient disassembly and reassembly of end-of-life (EOL) products has become a key challenge in smart factories. This paper addresses the Disassembly and Assembly Line Balanc...
The growing emphasis on ecological preservation and natural resource conservation has significantly advanced resource recycling, facilitating the realization of a sustainable green economy. Essential to resource recycling is the pivotal stage of disa...
In order to improve the product disassembly efficiency, the disassembly line balancing problem (DLBP) is transformed into a problem of searching for the optimum path in the directed and weighted graph by constructing the disassembly hierarchy informa...
The disassembly of spent lithium batteries is a prerequisite for efficient product recycling, the first link in remanufacturing, and its operational form has gradually changed from traditional manual disassembly to robot-assisted human–robot co...
This paper tackles the challenge of disassembly sequence planning (DSP) in energy-efficient remanufacturing by introducing an innovative hybrid optimization framework. The proposed model integrates a Dynamic Time-Varying CRITIC–Entropy (DTVCE)...
This paper aims to describe modeling and control in what concerns advanced manufacturing technology running on a flexible assembly, disassembly and repair on a mechatronic line (A/D/RML) assisted by an Autonomous Robotic System (ARS), two robotic man...
In our modern society, there has been a noticeable increase in pollution due to the trend of post-use handling of items. This necessitates the adoption of recycling and remanufacturing processes, advocating for sustainable resource management. This p...
The aim of this paper is to reverse an assembly line, to be able to perform disassembly, using two complex autonomous systems (CASs). The disassembly is functioning only in case of quality default identified in the final product. The CASs are wheeled...
The circular economy is attracting the attention of governments and companies who recognize the importance of promoting a sustainable approach toward social and industrial development. The European Union requires EU State members to support a sustain...
We analyzed a special class of graph traversal problems, where the distances are stochastic, and the agent is restricted to take a limited range in one go. We showed that both constrained shortest Hamiltonian pathfinding problems and disassembly line...
In the paper, a finite-capacity queueing model is considered in which jobs arrive according to a Poisson process and are being served according to hyper-exponential service times. A system of equations for the time-sensitive queue-size distribution i...
Recycling used battery packs for electric vehicles has important economic and ecological benefits. However, existing studies lack a systematic comparison of the different models. There is also a lack of exploration of symmetrical bilateral disassembl...
A communication and control architecture of a multifunctional technology for flexible manufacturing on an assembly, disassembly, and repair mechatronics line (A/D/RML), assisted by a complex autonomous system (CAS), is presented in the paper. A/D/RML...
Battery disassembly forms a central jumping-off point for recycling in the context of a sustainable closure of the battery loop. The main objective for economic realization in line with European recycling regulations is therefore a transformation of...
A digital twin for a multifunctional technology for flexible manufacturing on an assembly, disassembly, and repair mechatronics line (A/D/RML), assisted by a complex autonomous system (CAS), is presented in the paper. The hardware architecture consis...
Assembly lines (conveyors) are traditional means of large-scale and mass-scale productions. An assembly line balancing problem is needed for optimizing the assembly process by configuring and designing an assembly line for the same or similar types o...
This study investigates the interconnection methods used to create a circular economy building featuring modularity and designed for disassembly and relocation. Designing modular buildings for disassembly and reuse can decrease waste production and m...
In a circular economy, strategies for product recovery, such as reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing, play an important role at the end of a product’s life. A sustainability model was developed to solve the problem of sequence-dependent roboti...
Large section tunnels have huge excavation spans, complex excavation procedures, mutual influence among various procedures, multiple disturbances of the surrounding rock, and discontinuous connection among linings under different procedures, which br...
The buckle before the lens coating is still typically disassembled manually. The difference between the buckle and the background is small, while that between the buckles is large. This mechanical disassembly can also damage the lens. Therefore, it i...
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