A Decision Making Software for End-of-Life Vehicle Disassemblability and Recyclability Analysis

Currently, many countries have developed new legislations which are aimed at greater emphasis to force motor vehicle manufacturers to recycle their products at the end of their life. However, before end-of-life vehicles can be recycled, the end-of-life disassembly needs to be in placed. It entails large amounts of capital expenditure and time. Most manufacturers would not like to even considering disassembling and recycling the end-of-life vehicles unless costs are justified and financial gains assured. Therefore, there is a strong need for the software to evaluate the disassemblability and recyclability aspect of the end-of-life vehicles and to determine its technological and economic impact. This paper presents the software to fulfill the above needs. The software is expected to show how economically efficient is it to disassemble end-of-life vehicles and check the opportunity of a component to be reused, recycled and remanufactured.