Cost-based evaluation for product selective disassemblability

Abstract

Disassembly is required for product repairing, component reusing, and material recycling in the product lifecycle. Existing research in the area mainly focus on the complete disassembly for process planning algorithms, operation evaluations, and guidelines of product design. This paper introduces the evaluation of product selective disassembly planning. Cost measures are introduced in the evaluation of product disassemblability. Operating tools and tool changes are included in the analysis. A hybrid product representation is proposed to improve the existing method for the product selective disassembly analysis. The proposed method is verified using a case study.