Disassembly Line: Balancing and Modeling

Seamus McGovern Ph.D., is an Electronics Engineerat the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.He concurrently holds a commission in the U.S. NavyReserve as an Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer, aswell as a part-time industrial engineering facultyappointment at Northeastern University. A peerreviewer for six scientific journals, Dr. McGovern’sacademic efforts have been recognized with the awardof four competitive fellowships, 11 merit-based scholarships,election to three scholastic honor societies,and a national best dissertation prize.Surendra M. Gupta, Ph.D., is a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the director of the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing, NortheasternUniversity. He has authored or coauthoredwell over 400 technical papers published in books,journals and international conference proceedings.Dr. Gupta has taught over 100 courses in such areas asoperations research, inventory theory, queuing theory,engineering economy, supply chain management, andproduction planning and control. Among the manyrecognitions received, he is the recipient of the Outstanding Research Award and the Outstanding IndustrialEngineering Professor Award (in recognition ofteaching excellence) from Northeastern University aswell as a national Outstanding Doctoral DissertationAdvisor Award.

• Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Disassembly Background; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Assembly Lines; Chapter 3. Disassembly Lines; Chapter 4. Related Research; Chapter 5. Graphical Representations of Products to be Disassembled; Chapter 6. Computational Complexity of Combinatorial Problems; Part II: Disassembly-Line Balancing; Chapter 7. Disassembly-Line Balancing Overview; Chapter 8. Description of the Disassembly Line and the Mathematical Model; Chapter 9. Computational Complexity of DLBP; Chapter 10. Combinatorial Optimization Searches; Chapter 11. Experimental Instances; Chapter 12. Analytical Methodologies; Chapter 13. Exhaustive Search; Chapter 14. Genetic Algorithm; Chapter 15. Ant Colony Optimization; Chapter 16. Greedy Algorithm; Chapter 17. Greedy/Adjacent Element Hill-Climbing Hybrid; Chapter 18. Greedy/2-Opt Hybrid; Chapter 19. H-K Heuristic; Chapter 20. Quantitative and Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Chapter 21. Other Disassembly-Line Balancing Research; Part III: Further Disassembly-Line Considerations; Chapter 22. Overview of Additional Disassembly-Line Related Problems; Chapter 23. Disassembly-Line Product Planning; Chapter 24. Disassembly-Line Design; Chapter 25. Disassembly-Line Sequencing; Chapter 26. Disassembly-Line Inventory; Chapter 27. Disassembly-Line Just-in-Time; Chapter 28. Disassembly-Line Revenue; Chapter 29. Unbalanced Disassembly Lines; References; Appendix: Acronyms; Author Index; Subject Index