Disassembly line scheduling with genetic algorithms

Disassembly is part of the demanufacturing and it is meant to obtain components and materials from end-of-line products. An essential performance objective of a disassembly process is the benefits it brings, that is the revenue brought by the retrieved parts and material, diminished by the cost of their retrieval operations. A decision must be taken to balance an automatic disassembly line. A well balanced line will decrease the cost of disassembly operations. An evolutionary (genetic) algorithm is used to deal with the multi-criteria optimization problem of the disassembly scheduling.