TY - JFULL AU - Yuan-Jye Tseng and Fang-Yu Yu and Feng-Yi Huang PY - 2012/7/ TI - A Green Design for Assembly Model for Integrated Design Evaluation and Assembly and Disassembly Sequence Planning T2 - International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering SP - 1083 EP - 1090 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9723 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 66, 2012 N2 - A green design for assembly model is presented to integrate design evaluation and assembly and disassembly sequence planning by evaluating the three activities in one integrated model. For an assembled product, an assembly sequence planning model is required for assembling the product at the start of the product life cycle. A disassembly sequence planning model is needed for disassembling the product at the end. In a green product life cycle, it is important to plan how a product can be disassembled, reused, or recycled, before the product is actually assembled and produced. Given a product requirement, there may be several design alternative cases to design the same product. In the different design cases, the assembly and disassembly sequences for producing the product can be different. In this research, a new model is presented to concurrently evaluate the design and plan the assembly and disassembly sequences. First, the components are represented by using graph based models. Next, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) method with a new encoding scheme is developed. In the new PSO encoding scheme, a particle is represented by a position matrix defining an assembly sequence and a disassembly sequence. The assembly and disassembly sequences can be simultaneously planned with an objective of minimizing the total of assembly costs and disassembly costs. The test results show that the presented method is feasible and efficient for solving the integrated design evaluation and assembly and disassembly sequence planning problem. An example product is implemented and illustrated in this paper. ER -