Zusammenfassung
Against the background of scarce natural resources, the recovery of components and materials from discarded products is increasingly relevant. The disassembly of products, however, must be profitable for the involved actors. Therefore, disassembly is frequently conducted efficiently using disassembly lines. The balancing of such disassembly lines and decisions on the disassembly depth of the ...
Zusammenfassung
Against the background of scarce natural resources, the recovery of components and materials from discarded products is increasingly relevant. The disassembly of products, however, must be profitable for the involved actors. Therefore, disassembly is frequently conducted efficiently using disassembly lines. The balancing of such disassembly lines and decisions on the disassembly depth of the affected products are simultaneously considered to maximize profitability. Today, partial disassembly dominates this industry. While this is economically advantageous, a high ecological potential may remain unused. In recent years, collaborative robots can support workers in the manual disassembly of products to further enhance the disassembly processes’ efficiency and profitability. However, the increase in efficiency due to the partial automation of disassembly tasks may also result in a higher realized disassembly depth and thus account for ecological advantages. In our contribution, we investigate this effect for an illustrative example using a model-based approach.
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