Industry 4.0 and prospects of circular economy: a survey of robotic assembly and disassembly

Despite their contributions to the financial efficiency and environmental sustainability of industrial processes, robotic assembly disassembly have been understudied in existing literature. This is contradiction importance realizing Fourth Industrial Revolution. More specifically, although most literature has extensively discussed how optimally assemble or disassemble given products, role other factors overlooked. For example, among factors, choices robots involved implementing sequence plans, which should ideally be taken into account throughout whole chain consisting design, assembly, disassembly, reassembly, may greatly affect underlying implications with a considerable impact on viability effectiveness measures aimed at substantiating, realizing, strengthening backbones circular economy. Isolating foregoing operations from rest components relevant ecosystems lead erroneous inferences toward both necessity procedures. In this paper, we try alleviate these shortcomings by comprehensively investigating state art disassembly. We consider review various aspects manufacturing remanufacturing frameworks while particularly focusing desirability for supporting