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In an assembly system for part recycling, a robotic arm selectively picks reusable parts and new parts from part feeding devices and moves them to an assembly place. The movement time of the robotic arm between the part feeding devices and the assembly place is a function of the configuration of the system in terms of the layout of the part feeding devices and the assembly sequences. This paper evaluates the throughput of the part feeding devices and the assembly sequences in various situations. From computational and experimental results, it is shown that a certain combination of zigzag line part feeders and assembly sequence results in the shortest route in every matched parts selection. This is applicable to assembly systems for part recycling.
