The disassembly line design problem

In the design of disassembly lines, the equipment requirements is a common index to measure the cost-efficiency of a processing alternative, but it is seldom considered in the literature. This paper investigates the integrated decision of disassembly line balancing and equipment configuration, i.e., the disassembly line design problem. A linear mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation is developed, and a dynamic programming approach is proposed to solve the problem.