• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.873-874
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• 2010

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.5 s.98
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• pp.29-39
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• 1999

Many industrial products can be assembled in various sequences of assembly operations. To save time and cost in assembly process and to increase the quality of products, it is very important to choose an optimal assembly sequence. In this paper, we propose a methodology that generates an optimal assembly sequence by using the knowledge of experts. First, a product is divided into several sub-assemblies. Next, the disassembly sequences of sub-assembly are generated using disassembly rules and special information can be extracted through the disassembly process. By combining every assembly sequence of sub-assemblies, we can generate all the possible assembly sequences of a product. Finally, the expert system evaluates all the possible assembly sequences and finds an optimal assembly sequence. It can be achieved under consideration of the parameters such as assembly operation, tool change, safety of part. basepart location, setup change, distance, and orientation. The developed system is applied to UBR(Unit Bath Room) example.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.264-273
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• 2002

This paper focuses on disassembly sequencing, which is the problem of determining the optimum disassembly level and the corresponding disassembly sequence for a product at its end-of-life with the objective of maximizing the overall profit. In particular, sequence-dependent operation times, which frequently occur in practice due to tool-changeover, part reorientation, etc, are considered in the parallel disassembly environment. To represent the problem, a modified directed graph of assembly states is suggested as an extension of the existing extended process graph. Based on the directed graph, the problem is transformed into the shortest path problem and formulated as a linear programming model that can be solved straightforwardly with standard techniques. A case study on a photocopier was done and the results are reported.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.254-263
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• 2013

Disassembly of discarded products takes place in the process of remanufacturing, recycling, and disposal. The disassembly lines have been taken as available choice for automated disassembly; therefore, it has become essential that it be designed and balanced to work efficiently. The multi-objective disassembly line balancing problem seeks to find a disassembly sequence which provides a feasible disassembly sequence, minimizes the number of workstations and idle time, and balances the line for the disassembly of post consumed product by considering the environment effects. This paper proposes a multi-criteria decision making technique based heuristic for assigning the disassembly tasks to the workstations. In the proposed heuristic, the PROMETHEE method is used for prioritizing the tasks to be assigned. The tasks are assigned to the disassembly workstations according to their priority rank and precedence relations. The proposed heuristic is illustrated with an example, and the results show that substantial improvement in the performance is achieved compared with other heuristics.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.226.1-226.1
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.226.2-226.2
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1992.04b
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• pp.533-544
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• 1992

한 제품의 구성 부품 수가 증가함에 따라 조립/분해 순서의 방법수는 기하급수적으로 증가한다. 또한 이 순서의 선택에 의하여 조립/분해의 효율성이 결정된다. 본 논문에서는 조립제품의 조립순서(Assembly Sequence)와 특정부품의 효율적 교체(Part Replacement)를 위한 분해순서(Disassembly sequence)에 관한 새로운 Algorithm들을 다음 3가지 경우를 통하여 소개한다 : 1) Full Assembly/Disassembly, 2) Part Replacement by Individual Disassembly, 그리고 3) Part Replacement by Group Disassembly. 이들 Algorithm들은 'Freedom and Interference Space'라는 새로운 개념으로부터 유도되며, Group Disassembly는 Carpenter's Approach를 통하여 실현된다. 이 논문에서 소개되는 Algorithm들은 조립/분해순서와 함께 조립/분해 방향도 제시하는데 비교적 복잡한 예를 통하여 이들을 실현함으로써 실제 제품 Design에의 활용 가능성을 보여준다.

• IE interfaces
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.414-425
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• 2004

This study presents the decision of priority for optimal design guide to improve disassembly process. Disassembly process is divided into recognition, transfer and disassembly of assembly point and recognition, transfer and remove of grasp point. Significant influential factors are derived from analyzing the above process. And those factors are used for making the check list to evaluate the properties of parts in each process. Furthermore, the weight with considering disassembly process is also used to determine weight of each process. On the base of the above sequence, qualitative score of disassemblability of each process that is enabled to compare different disassembly processes can be acquired. Ultimately the score helps to decide the priority of design guide for disassembly process.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.29-37
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• 2002

De-manufacturing is an entire process of collecting, disassembling, reusing, refurbishing, recycling, and/or disposing products that are obsolete or un-repairable. Designing the products for inexpensive and efficient disassembly enhances the ease of de-manufacturing. Virtual disassembly addresses the difficulty and the methods to disassemble a product in design stage rather than really disassemble a product at the end of its life cycle. Based on the virtual disassembly analysis results, design will be improved for better assembling/disassembling. This paper presents a systematic virtual disassembly methodology such as disassembly relation modeling, path/sequence automatic generation and evaluation. This paper also presents a new virtual disassembly interface paradigm via virtual reality technology for disassembly simulation in virtual environment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.159-171
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• 2003

In this paper, same parts of a domestic automobiles and foreign automobiles are disassembled fur the evaluation of disassemblability, especially door trim and bumper. Influencing factors of disassembly are determined by the classification of bottleneck process in disassembly process. On the bases of disassembly sequence and structure of parts and subassembly, disassemblability is classified into aye categories. The influencing factors, which are related with the five categories are determined. By these relations, the checklist for disassembly evaluation is draw up and score tables of checked factors are established. For the establishing the disassembly score tables, the weighting values of each five categories are calculated by the disassembly test of automobiles and then, the weighting values of each influencing factors of five categories are calculated by the method of AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). And the last, the weighting values are modified and recalculated from the disassembly test. Using these weighting values, the score of influencing factors are determined and then, the score tables are established based on the score of influencing factors.