Development of disassembly support system for mechanical parts and its application to design considering reuse/recycle

Author

Wakamatsu, Hidefuini ; Tsumaya, Akira ; Shirase, Keiichi ; Arai, Eiji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manuf. Sci., Osaka Univ., Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

372

Lastpage

377

Abstract

Recently, the design for disassemblabality/recyclability becomes more important from the viewpoint of Life Cycle Assessment or Emission-Minimum. Therefore, a disassembly support system which can be applied to the design considering reuse/recycle is developed. First, an algorithm for verifying disassemblability of parts as briefly explained. Next, a method for estimate the total number of feasible disassembly sequences without actually generating them is proposed. Furthermore, an order to reduce the number of disassembly sequences, precedence constraints such as the assembly feature are introduced. Finally, the efficiency of our developed disassembly sequence generation system is demonstrated and it is shown that the design can be evaluated from the viewpoint of disassemblability/recyclability by using our system

Keywords

mechanical engineering computing; product development; recycling; Life Cycle Assessment; disassemblabality; disassembly support system; feasible disassembly sequences; mechanical parts; recyclability; Assembly systems; Computer aided manufacturing; Design automation; Interference; Mechanical products; Motion detection; Recycling; Shape; Software systems; Stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2001. Proceedings EcoDesign 2001: Second International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1266-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/.2001.992383

Filename

992383