Selective disassembly for virtual prototyping as applied to de-manufacturing
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Selective disassembly involves separating a selected set of components from an assembly. Applications for selective disassembly include de-manufacturing (maintenance and recycling), and assembling. This paper presents a new methodology for performing design for selective disassembly analysis on the CAD model of an assembly. The methodology involves the following three steps: (i) identifying the components to be selectively disassembled for de-manufacturing by a software program or designer, (ii) determining an optimal (e.g. minimal cost) disassembly sequence for the selected components that involves a computationally e$cient two-level reduction procedure: (a) the determination of a set of sequences with an objective of minimal component removals via a wave propagation approach that topologically order components in an assembly for selective disassembly, and (b) the evaluation of resulting sequences based on an objective function (e.g. minimal cost) to identify an optimal sequence, and (iii) Performing disassembly design decisions based on the evaluated optimal sequence. Preliminary implementation results of the selective disassembly methodology in sequencing and disassembly cost evaluation, and application of the selective disassembly technique for de-manufacturing assessment are presented. ( 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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