Abstract: Growing concerns from customers and the government about product disposal highlight the necessity of improving product takeback systems to retain the embedded values in disposed products. Progress has been made toward ...

Abstract: As interest in product recovery, reuse, and recycling rises, planning and evaluating disassembly sequences are becoming increasingly important. The manner in which a product can be taken apart strongly influences endoflife ...

Abstract: Disassembly sequence planning at the early conceptual stage of design leads to enormous benefits including simplification of products, lower assembly and disassembly costs, and design modifications which result in increased ...

Abstract: The scientific and industrial communities have begun investigating the possibility of making product recovery economically viable. Disassembly sequence planning may be used to make endoflife product takeback processes more ...