Disassembly line balancing.

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• Creators:
  McGovern, Seamus M. ; Gupta, Surendra M.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Recycling Remanufacturing
• Resource Type:
  In Book
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Environment Impacts ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
• Abstract:
  Manufacturers are increasingly recycling and remanufacturing their postconsumed
  
  products due to new, more rigid environmental legislation,
  
  increased public awareness, and extended manufacturer responsibility. In
  
  addition, the economic attractiveness of reusing products, subassemblies or
  
  parts instead of disposing off them has further fueled this effort. Recycling is a process performed to retrieve the material content of used and nonfunctioning
  
  products. Remanufacturing, however, is an industrial process in which
  
  worn-out products are restored to like-new conditions. Thus, remanufacturing
  
  provides the quality standards of new products with used parts.
  
  Product recovery seeks to obtain materials and parts from old or outdated
  
  products through recycling and remanufacturing to minimize the amount of
  
  waste sent to landfi lls. This includes the reuse of parts and products. There
  
  are many attributes of a product that enhance product recovery; examples
  
  include: ease of disassembly, modularity, type and compatibility of materials
  
  used, material identifi cation markings, and effi cient cross-industrial
  
  reuse of common parts/materials. The fi rst crucial step of product recovery
  
  is disassembly.
  
  Disassembly is defi ned as the methodical extraction of valuable parts/
  
  subassemblies and materials from discarded products through a series of
  
  operations. After disassembly, reusable parts/subassemblies are cleaned,
  
  refurbished, tested, and directed to the part/subassembly inventory for
  
  remanufacturing operations. The recyclable materials can be sold to rawmaterial
  
  suppliers, while the residuals are sent to landfi lls.
  
  
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• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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