GROUPING GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR GREEN PRODUCT MODULAR DESIGN

摘要

Recently, people all over the world paid much attention to green and environmental design. The proposal of design for end of life is to take into account the recycling problem in the product design stage. Under the consideration of economy, the green recycle of a product depends upon the relationship between recycling profit and recycling cost of the discarded product. This study attempted to build up grouping genetic algorithms for product modular design in three stages. At Stage 1, the liaison intensity was used to quantify the connection relations among parts by their engineering information. At Stage 2, the product to be recycled was modularized by the grouping genetic algorithms. At Stage 3, the disassembly cost and recycle profit of the modules were evaluated. Finally, the stapler was used as examples to illustrate the proposed assessment methodology.