Proposal of Ubiquitous Disassembly System for Realizing Reuse and Recycling in Cooperative Distributed Facilities

In product recovery (reuse and recycle) processes, transportation costs and lead-time for reuse can be reduced by executing recovery operations near user´s site. This study proposes the ubiquitous disassembly system to realize the disassembly operations in distributed facilities and to transport it by existent delivery services. First, requirements for this system are considered, and the architecture of this system is proposed. Second, a realization model using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and agent-based implementation approach is introduced. Especially, the merit of using this approach for transportation management is mentioned