Disassembly information model incorporating dynamic capabilities for disassembly sequence generation

Abstract Industrial recycling and reusing is becoming more and more important due to the environmental and economic pressures. It involves disassembly activities to retrieve all the parts or selected parts. An information modeling for the disassembly and optimal disassembly sequence generation based on the information model becomes critical. Unlike the traditional graph based representation of product structure, this paper introduces an efficient and machine readable disassembly information model and then discusses a linear programming based optimization model for obtaining the optimal disassembly sequence from the proposed disassembly information model. A key feature of this approach is the incorporation and use of dynamic capabilities in its information model processing technique. Dynamic capabilities are added into the information model to handle state-dependent information such as parts' disassembly directions which may change after each disassembly operation. The overall information model is built in UML, and dynamic capabilities are represented as events in UML. The proposed method has been illustrated using an electrical–mechanical device.

[1]  Ajd Fred Lambert,et al.  Disassembly sequencing: A survey , 2003 .

[2]  Steven J. Fenves,et al.  A core product model for representing design information , 2001 .

[3]  Ram D. Sriram,et al.  THE OPEN ASSEMBLY MODEL FOR THE EXCHANGE OF ASSEMBLY AND TOLERANCE INFORMATION: OVERVIEW AND EXAMPLE , 2004 .

[4]  Alfred J.D. Lambert,et al.  A heuristic solution for the disassembly line balancing problem incorporating sequence dependent costs , 2005, SPIE Optics East.

[5]  Shaw C. Feng,et al.  Information model for disassembly for reuse, recycle, and remanufacturing , 2011 .

[6]  Ajay Bhootra,et al.  A Disassembly Optimization Problem , 2002 .

[7]  Arthur C. Sanderson,et al.  AND/OR graph representation of assembly plans , 1986, IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom..

[8]  Surendra M. Gupta,et al.  A petri net approach to disassembly process planning , 1998 .

[9]  Yung-Tsun T. Lee,et al.  Information Modeling: From Design to Implementation , 1999 .

[10]  MengChu Zhou,et al.  Disassembly modeling, planning and application: a review , 2000, Proceedings 2000 ICRA. Millennium Conference. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Symposia Proceedings (Cat. No.00CH37065).

[11]  Günther Seliger,et al.  Automatic Control Sequence Generation for a Hybrid Disassembly System , 2007, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

[12]  Günther Seliger,et al.  Adaptive disassembly sequence control by using product and system information , 2006 .

[13]  Paul Xirouchakis,et al.  Disassembly sequencing for maintenance: A survey , 2006 .

[14]  Dimitris Kiritsis,et al.  An ontology-based approach for Product Lifecycle Management , 2010, Comput. Ind..

[15]  Ivar Jacobson,et al.  Unified Modeling Language , 2020, Definitions.

[16]  Jumyung Um,et al.  An architecture design with data model for product recovery management systems , 2008 .

[17]  Sudarsan Rachuri,et al.  Object-oriented representation of electro-mechanical assemblies using UML , 2003, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium onAssembly and Task Planning, 2003..

[18]  F. Torres,et al.  Disassembly planning strategies for automatic material removal , 2010 .