Metrics and experimental data for assessing unbalanced disassembly lines.

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• Alternative Title:
  Special issue on: unbalanced production line systems, merits and applications, guest editor: Dr. Sabry Shaaban
• Creators:
  McGovern, Seamus M. ; Gupta, Surendra M.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Benchmarks Disassembly Sequencing Metrics (Quantitative Assessment) Multicriteria Decision Making Paced Production Production Recycling Remanufacturing Reverse Manufacturing Unbalanced Lines
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management
• Abstract:
  Disassembly lines are inherently multi-criteria, with balance having the possibility of
  
  being one of the lower priorities. This is due to the fact that other criteria – for example,
  
  removing valuable or hazardous materials early on in the process – may be of more importance
  
  than obtaining an optimal balance. In addition, complete disassembly may not be desired,
  
  required, or even possible, resulting in only partial disassembly being conducted. The result may
  
  be a disassembly sequence that readily satisfies the decision maker’s primary requirements, but
  
  at the expense of an unbalanced line. However, obtaining the decision maker’s primary
  
  requirements may not sufficiently justify exceptionally poor balance. Alternatively, the
  
  difference between a balanced disassembly line and one that is unbalanced – but at the expense
  
  of other desirable criteria – may turn out to be so insignificant that a focus purely on balance may
  
  obfuscate the benefits of considering other criteria. Therefore, metrics are also needed to
  
  quantitatively evaluate the merits of all considered criteria, including the level of balance (or
  
  unbalance). In this paper, a multi-criteria benchmark data set and associated metrics are
  
  developed for use in quantitatively evaluating an unbalanced paced disassembly line. These data
  
  and metrics are then demonstrated using an established disassembly line model and a
  
  deterministic, multi-criteria search heuristic.
  
  
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