Capacitated disassembly scheduling with parts commonality and start-up cost and its industrial application

Xiaocong Ji, Zhihai Zhang, Simin Huang and Lefei Li

International Journal of Production Research, 2016, vol. 54, issue 4, 1225-1243

Abstract: This paper discusses the capacitated disassembly scheduling with parts commonality and start-up cost, which has broad applications in remanufacturing and many other production systems. The problem is formulated as a mixed-integer programming model. A Lagrangian heuristic is developed, where the lower bound problem reduces to a linear model, and the upper bound can be obtained with a two-stage procedure in polynomial time. The algorithm is tested on randomly generated problems. The results reveal that the approach outperforms CPLEX significantly for all the test instances, and for real-scale problem it provides sufficiently good solutions within acceptable time. Sensitivity studies on capacity, parts commonality and start-up cost are also conducted, which provide some useful insights for industrial managers. Moreover, a real-world case from a valve disassembly factory is studied, which illustrates the application of the proposed approach and gives managerial insights. Finally, conclusions are drawn and some potential extensions are discussed.

Date: 2016
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