INOUE Masato    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Science and Technology    Position   Professor
Language	Japanese
Publication Date	2015/10
Type	Academic Journal
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	Case Study on Comparison Analysis of Assembly/Disassembly Operations and Systems between Product and Production Designs
Contribution Type	Co-authored (other than first author)
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.82-91
Details	Closed-loop supply chains for assembly products are essential to prevent material starvation. The systems consist of both the assembly and disassembly for reuse and recycling. To establish sustainable manufacturing economically and environmentally, the number of work stations in the both systems should be reduced. However, the bottlenecks for the both operation cost and precedence relationship may be different in assembly and disassembly. Thus, the product and the production system designs cosidering both assembly and disassembly are required. This study proposes a comparison analysis of the disassembly/assembly operations and systems between the product and production designs. First, the bill of materials and the precedence relationship are constructed Assembly Reliability Evaluation Method (AREM) and Recyclability Evaluation Method (REM) provided by Hitachi, Ltd. Next, it performs the line balancing using the integer programming. Finally, the alternative plans in the assembly and disassembly lines are quantitatively evaluated in term of both product and production system designs.