An AHP and PROMETHEE methods-based environment friendly heuristic for disassembly line balancing problems. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Avikal, Shwetank; Mishra, P.K.; Jain, Rajeev
• Is Part Of: Interdisciplinary environmental review. Volume 14:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 69
• Page End: 85
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: line balancing heuristics -- product disassembly -- environmental effects -- analytic hierarchy process -- AHP -- PROMETHEE methods -- waste management; Environmental sciences -- Periodicals; Environmental management -- Periodicals; Sustainability -- Periodicals; 333.705
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1521-0227

Abstract

Disassembly activities take place in various recovery operations such as remanufacturing, recycling and disposal. Disassembly of used product is necessary because of their malign effects on environment. The problem of sequence generation in disassembly is complex and is difficult to solve. The optimal balance of a disassembly line is thorny because of its NP hard nature. Various heuristics, mathematical models and other solving techniques have been reported to solve such problems. In the present work, a new heuristic has been proposed to assign the parts to the disassembly work stations under precedence constraints. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and PROMETHEE methods have been incorporated in the proposed heuristic to prioritise the tasks for assignment. The methodology has been illustrated with a case example. It has been observed that the proposed heuristic is effective to generate viable solutions.