Dynamic process and operation planning for hybrid disassembly

The European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive and the End of Life Vehicle (ELV) directive will result in an increasing demand for cost efficient disassembly systems at a high capacity. But major differences between the disassembly plan from the planning system and real disassembly situations cause difficulties for execution in the workshop in line with what was planned originally. The objective of this work is to reflect availabilities of disassembly tools in the real disassembly cell as well as to provide a new concept for generating a set of operation sequences by using disassembly process planning. Algorithms developed for dynamic process and operation planning takes into account the disassembly system conditions and the actual disassembly steps for the specific product.