Analysis on Factors Impeding the Disassembly Process with Consideration on Automated Disassembly Planning

Disassembly is one of the most important elements of product recovery operations. Most of the open literatures on the disassembly process were focused mainly on the method, sequencing and planning. The optimum disassembly sequence of a product for industrial recycling and remanufacturing requires the intervention of an expert in the work areas. In addition to these literatures, systematic studies on the disassembly are still needed for better understanding of its elements. Thus, an experimental investigation was conducted to re-evaluate the first existing approach of disassembly process; reverse-assembly method in disassembling table top fan. To measure the performances of the method, experiments are conducted in reverse assemble method in two ways; manual disassembly and semi-automated disassembly. This is due to the fact that this research work is considering on developing an optimum disassembly sequence for automated disassembly process. Factors which affect the performances will be analysed and discussed. This paper is the proceeding research on the previous paper titled "Experimental Design for Reverse Assembly Based Disassembly Process". (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by ELsevier B.V.