Study of Disassembly Parts Selection considering Reuse

Abstract

To desire a sustainable society, circular economy for End-of-Life (EOL) assembled products has been required. To recycle or to reuse the parts of the EOL. assembled products, manual disassembly is required which has higher cost due to labor one. To establish environmental but economic recycling factories in practice, disassembly or crushing is selected for each part considering recycling rate and cost. Igarashi et al. (2014) proposed a disassembly parts selection considering the recycling rate and cost. However, part reuse is not considered. This study proposes the disassembly parts selection with minimization of cost and maximization of recovery rate including recycling and reuse considering life expectancy of parts.