Disassembly Process Planning and Its Lines Balancing Prediction

Design centers and industrial organizations emphasize that process planning is one of the most important pillars that guarantee an efficient production system, as it represents the principal link between design and manufacturing in target of avoiding time and cost wastes. In order to ensure an effective assembly/disassembly process implementation, several parameters have to be properly treated during the planning phase: product data collection and analysis, alignment with customer demand forecast, capacity calculation and equipment/tools planning, in addition to identify layout steps and process setting-up phases. One of the most important procedures that initiate a product remanufacturability and recyclability is disassembly process. That's why it is mandatory to predict the disassembly process planning and predefine it in advance. This research paper proposes an analytical formulation of disassembly process planning prediction: it is a proactive procedure which model need of equipment, layout and line balancing from the early design phase of product. The disassembly process elements are defined with reference to a previously extracted disassembly plans (DP) from literature, and the disassembly process planning prediction is applied on an optimal disassembly plan selected based on two combined indicators which are Quality index (Qi) and timing index (Ti).