TY - GEN
T1 - Mechanical disassembly of end-of-life products
AU - Tourassis, Vassilios D.
PY - 2014/3/7
Y1 - 2014/3/7
N2 - With growing interest in the recovery of materials and subassemblies from consumer products at the end of their useful life, there is a need to develop decision-making methodologies that determine how to maximize the environmental benefits of end-of-life processing while minimizing recovery costs. Disassembling products is the most common mechanical procedure of current end-of-life treatment methods. Consequently, quantitative design evaluation from the disassembly perspective has received special attention in the research literature. Unfortunately the design of disassembly lines cannot be achieved by simply reversing the order of the mechanical assembly of the products involved. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the similarities and differences of the assembly and disassembly processes through a practical real-world example.
AB - With growing interest in the recovery of materials and subassemblies from consumer products at the end of their useful life, there is a need to develop decision-making methodologies that determine how to maximize the environmental benefits of end-of-life processing while minimizing recovery costs. Disassembling products is the most common mechanical procedure of current end-of-life treatment methods. Consequently, quantitative design evaluation from the disassembly perspective has received special attention in the research literature. Unfortunately the design of disassembly lines cannot be achieved by simply reversing the order of the mechanical assembly of the products involved. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the similarities and differences of the assembly and disassembly processes through a practical real-world example.
KW - Disassembly lines
KW - End-of-life processing
KW - Mechanical assembly
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.527.277
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.527.277
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84896874697
SN - 9783038350293
T3 - Applied Mechanics and Materials
SP - 277
EP - 280
BT - Mechatronics and Computational Mechanics II
T2 - 2013 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics and Computational Mechanics, ICMCM 2013
Y2 - 30 December 2013 through 31 December 2013
ER -