Abstract
An important process for the reuse and recycling of end-of-life products is their disassembly. In general, manual disassembly is a labor intensive and costly process. Especially, removing fasteners takes time and cost. This paper proposes a design method for the disassembly of products with split-lines, which enable to destruct a poduct into desired shapes like pull tabs of cans and caps of PET bottles. This method supports a designer to add split-lines to the products in the design phase in order to extract a target component. Especially, this paper proposes a method for determining the location of split-lines by detecting interference regions between components. A case study shows that the dismantling of a LCD TV with split-lines reduces the number of manual operations needed for extracting a target component.
