Abstract
Increasing environmental concerns during the last decade have caused many governments to persuade manufacturers to take back used products so that the components and materials recovered from the products could be reused and/or recycled. The disassembly process is the first step for recovering components and materials. We discuss some of the complications in planning and scheduling of disassembly on a disassembly line. We show how to overcome them by implementing a multi-kanban mechanism in the disassembly line setting. We then investigate the multi-kanban mechanism using simulation and demonstrate that in the multi-product, multi-demand environment, such mechanism performs superior to the traditional push system.
Keywords
Disassembly line, Just in time systems
Subject Categories
Production engineering
Disciplines
Engineering
Publisher
Omnipress
Publication Date
2004
Rights Information
Copyright 2004, Surendra M. Gupta
Rights Holder
Gupta M. Surendra
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Recommended Citation
Gupta, Surendra M.; Udomsawat, Gun; and Al-Turki, Yousef A. Y., "Push and pull control systems in disassembly lines" (2004). . Paper 97. http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d10013684
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Notes
Originally published in the Proceedings of the 2004 Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 7811-7816, November 20-23, 2004