A Framework for the Flexible Grouping of Products for Disassembly

Viswanathan, Shivakumar; Allada, Venkat

doi:10.1142/s0960313199000283

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“…The authors of Viswanathan and Allada (1999) and Tang et al (2001) have proposed using group technology, a manufacturing philosophy that has proven to be a useful way of addressing these problems, and so, it has attracted a lot of attention because of its positive impacts in productivity and flexibility of the batch-type production. It can be used to exploit similarities between components to achieve lower costs and increase productivity without losing product quality.…”

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Computational Intelligence in Used Products Retrieval and Reproduction

Gao

Xing

Marwala

2013

International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research

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Remanufacturing has become a superior option for product recovery management system. It mainly consists of three stages: retrieval, reproduction, and redistribution. So far, many different approaches have been followed in order to improve the efficiency of a remanufacturing process. However, as the complexity increases, the use of computational intelligence (CI) in those problems is becoming a unique tool of imperative value. In this paper, different CI methods, such as artificial neural network (ANN), ant colony optimization (ACO), biogeography-based optimization (BBO), cuckoo search (CS) and fuzzy logic (FL), are utilized to solve the problems involved in retrieval and reproduction stages for remanufacturing. The key issues in implementing the proposed approaches are discussed, and finally the applicability of the proposed methods are illustrated through different examples.

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confidence: 99%