Grinding is the last and most important process of parts processing, the purpose is to achieve high precision and surface roughness. Therefore, grinding machine has the characteristics of high added value, high technology content and great remanufacturing value. However, the evaluation of machine tool remanufacturing is based on imprecise and fuzzy information at present. The aim of this study is to present the remanufacturing evaluation for feasibility and comprehensive benefit of retired grinder. Firstly, according to the unique structure of grinder, the feasibility evaluation model of grinder remanufacturing is established, including technical feasibility criterion, economic feasibility criterion and resource environment feasibility criterion. Secondly, the comprehensive benefit evaluation model of remanufacturing grinder is established, in which the weight of each evaluation criterion is determined by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Finally, combined with the remanufacturing case of the cylindrical grinder, the evaluation method is verified and analyzed. The results show that the remanufacturing of the waste grinding machine through the feasibility evaluation can obtain better comprehensive benefits, and the remanufacturer can get considerable benefits and reduce the potential risks in the remanufacturing process.

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are an important instrument for solving the multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). It has been observed that the combined ant colony (MOEA/D-ACO) based on decomposition is very promising for MOPs. However, as the number of optimization objectives increases, the selection pressure will be released, leading to a significant reduction in the performance of the algorithm. It is a significant problem and challenge in the MOEA/D-ACO to maintain the balance between convergence and diversity in many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs). In the proposed algorithm, an MOEA/D-ACO with the penalty based boundary intersection distance (PBI) method (MOEA/D-ACO-PBI) is intended to solve the MaOPs. PBI decomposes the problems with many single-objective problems, a weighted vector adjustment method based on clustering, and uses different pheromone matrices to solve different single objectives proposed. Then the solutions are constructed and pheromone was updated. Experimental results on both CF1-CF4 and suits of C-DTLZ benchmarks problems demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm in comparison with three state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of both convergence and diversity.

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processing problem of complex and precise parts with small batch and many varieties can be solved by CNC grinding machine. It belongs to flexible and highly efficient automation machine tool, which represents the development direction of modern machine tool control technology. CNC grinding machine is a typical mechatronic product. Function specialization of CNC machine tool not only improves the productivity of the machine tool itself, but also greatly increases the production efficiency of all industries applying the special tool. It has especially prominent performance in automotive industry, and bottleneck of specialized production equipment has been prominent with acceleration of product updating speed and rapid diversification of social labor division. Flexible automation ability of CNC machine tool is greatly enhanced especially with the development of numerical control technology and performance improvement. Meanwhile, specialized demand on product is highly increased in all fields, more and more machine tool designs are deeply developed to the direction of flexibility. The machining efficiency of the machine tool has been largely beyond the specialization with continuous development of high speed and high precision technology. Integration of flexibility with high speed, high precision, intelligence, networking and modularization in concept level becomes important foundation of modern compound concept. Therefore compounding has become development direction of machine tool with realistic significance.