Balancing disassembly lines under consideration of tool requirements and limited space

摘要

One of the factors that can enable a shift towards a circular economy is the efficient organization of product disassembly. To this end, we study the disassembly line balancing problem, i.e., the assignment of disassembly tasks to workstations and extend it by practical aspects. We present a profit oriented optimization model, specifically taking into account the resource needs to carry out each task, and the limited space at workstations. The model is applied to a case study from literature and, by means of a sensitivity analysis, we demonstrate the impact of various problem specific parameters on the objective value and solution characteristics.