A heuristic solution for the disassembly line balancing problem incorporating sequence dependent costs

A. J. D. Lambert; Surendra M. Gupta

doi:10.1117/12.637368

4 November 2005 A heuristic solution for the disassembly line balancing problem incorporating sequence dependent costs

A. J. D. Lambert, Surendra M. Gupta

Proceedings Volume 5997, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing V; 59970A (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.637368
Event: Optics East 2005, 2005, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

This paper deals with disassembly sequencing problems subjected to sequence dependent disassembly costs. We present a heuristic and an iterative method based on partial branch and bound concept to solve such problems. Since heuristic methods intrinsically generate suboptimum solutions, we compared the heuristically obtained solutions with the exact solutions to see if they are reasonably good or not. This process, however, is limited to small or perhaps medium sized problems only as the required CPU time for exact methods tends to increase exponentially with the problem size. For the problems tested, we observed that the methods described in this paper generate surprisingly good results using almost negligible amount of CPU time.

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A. J. D. Lambert and Surendra M. Gupta "A heuristic solution for the disassembly line balancing problem incorporating sequence dependent costs", Proc. SPIE 5997, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing V, 59970A (4 November 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.637368

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