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An Enhanced Social Engineering Optimizer for Solving an Energy-Efficient Disassembly Line Balancing Problem Based on Bucket Brigades and Cloud Theory


Abstract:

A disassembly line is an industrialized and automated production line which should be scheduled with high production efficiency. Although many disassembly line balancing ...Show More

Abstract:

A disassembly line is an industrialized and automated production line which should be scheduled with high production efficiency. Although many disassembly line balancing optimization studies are contributed recently, they increase or reduce the number of workstations to balance the disassembly line. From real-world managerial settings, an increase or decrease workstations, is too expensive and not realistic. The bucket brigades’ disassembly line is self-balancing and self-organizing, which is not constrained by the workstation beat time and only needs to distribute workers on the line according to certain rules to achieve line balancing after a period of time. In this article, a bucket brigades disassembly line balancing optimization method considering uncertainty is proposed, in which a cloud model is used to represent the uncertain disassembly time. The proposed model handles multiple objectives including smoothness, disassembly cost and disassembly energy consumption to be minimized. To solve this complex problem, this article innovates a new heuristic method based on the social engineering optimizer as an enhanced local search metaheuristic. Finally, a ball collector is used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method and extensive analysis is done to compare the performance of proposed model with other recent algorithms.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics ( Volume: 19, Issue: 5, May 2023)
Page(s): 7148 - 7159
Date of Publication: 26 July 2022

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I. Introduction

At Present, China's economic development enters a stage of transformation and upgrading for industry 4.0 technologies and industrial informatics. It is an urgent need to improve quality and efficiency for recycling, remanufacturing, manufacturing assembling and disassembling activities. Waste electromechanical products can be regarded as a kind of renewable resources, which often contain a high proportion of precious metals and reusable parts. A good recycling not only alleviates the current situation of resource tension, but also reduces manufacturing costs. Disassembly is an important means to recover renewable resources from used electromechanical products while realizing the remanufacturing of electromechanical products.

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