Sustainable Plant Layout Design for End of Life Vehicle Recycling and Disassembly Industry Based on SLP Method, a Typical Case in China

Abstract

End of life vehicle (ELV) is a significant renewable resource with enormous economic value and environmental value. New regulation promulgated by the State Council of PRC has been implemented since June 2019, allows main assemblies of ELV can be sold to remanufacture enterprises, which dramatically prompts more enterprises to invest in the recycling industry. According to the technological recovery characteristics of ELV, the system layout design (SLP) method is briefly applied to arrange the plant facility layout of ELV recycling and disassembly enterprise. The relationship between logistics and non-logistics was firstly analyzed, and the operating unit correlation diagram of location and area were presented correspondingly. Then, through further modification and adjustment, the feasible layout scheme was obtained, and the reasonable general layout of the plant area was determined by using the weighted factor method. As a critical functional unit of the factory area, the detailed planning and design of the disassembly and shredding workshop were further presented. A detailed facility layout and logistics route of the disassembly and shredding workshop are finally proposed according to the obtained correlation diagram of the operating unit area based SLP, which has been implemented in a recycling company in Changsha, a typical case in China. Combined with the theoretical techniques of statistics, intelligent algorithms, and logistics analysis under the background of modern green production and sustainable manufacturing, this work can provide a new approach for plant layout design and optimization for ELV recycling and disassembly industry.INDEX TERMS end of life vehicle, recycle and disassembly, plant facility layout, sustainable design, SLP.

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“…However, uncertainty and other primary factors that affect ELV management were omitted in this study. Li et al (2021) adopted the sustainable system layout design method to organise the ELV recycling and disassembly plant facility layout and logistic route for remanufacturing development in China; however, integrating validation support with advanced technological tools is needed to improve the plant layout alternatives for future growth. Simic et al (2021) x Karagöz et al (2021) x Krishna Mohan and Amit (2021) x Li et al (2021) x Simic et al (2021) x Yi and Lee ( 2021 x Hao et al (2018) x Raja Mamat et al (2018) x Rosa and Terzi (2018) x Keivanpour et al (2017) x Hu and Wen (2017) x Tian et al (2017) x Phuc et al (2017) x Ravi and Shankar (2017) x Xia et al (2016) x Simic (2016a)…”

“…However, uncertainty and other primary factors that affect ELV management were omitted in this study. Li et al (2021) adopted the sustainable system layout design method to organise the ELV recycling and disassembly plant facility layout and logistic route for remanufacturing development in China; however, integrating validation support with advanced technological tools is needed to improve the plant layout alternatives for future growth. Simic et al (2021) used the picture fuzzy sets COmbinative Distance-Based ASsessment (CODAS) method to investigate the problem of identifying a new vehicle shredding plant location in the Republic of Serbia.…”

Research on Irregular Warehouse Layout Based on Optimised Genetic Algorithm

“…Due to its highly logical and practical layout techniques, the SLP method has been widely used for facility layouts. For example, it has been studied at the level of factories [2,3] and logistics parks [4,5]. However, it is difficult to achieve the best layout solution by relying on this method.…”

Rationalisation of the Functioning of Vehicle Recycling

“…In the implementation of vehicle recycling (Li et al 2021, Li et al 2021a, Li et al 2019, Liu et al 2020, Meng et al 2022, especially of trucks and buses, it is necessary to build economic systems on a national scale or individual EU international communities that ensure safe collection of end-of-life cars/buses, dismantling, reuse, recovery (Chamier-Gliszczyński 2011) selection and transport of materials to processing plants, characterised by:  Tightness -ensuring that every end-of-life vehicle/bus (except for antique vehicles with museum or collector value) goes to the recycling network and preventing environmental contamination during uncontrolled dismantling by spilling oil into the ground or dumping tires into the forest, among others. (Osiński & Żach 2019),  Recycling level -as high as possible, or at least required by the EU Directive (Chamier-Gliszczyński 2011a),  Profitability -all business entities participating in the system must conduct economically viable operations.…”