Abstract
End of life vehicle (ELV) is a significant renewable resource with enormous economic value and environmental value. New regulation promulgated by the State Council of PRC has been implemented since June 2019, allows main assemblies of ELV can be sold to remanufacture enterprises, which dramatically prompts more enterprises to invest in the recycling industry. According to the technological recovery characteristics of ELV, the system layout design (SLP) method is briefly applied to arrange the plant facility layout of ELV recycling and disassembly enterprise. The relationship between logistics and non-logistics was firstly analyzed, and the operating unit correlation diagram of location and area were presented correspondingly. Then, through further modification and adjustment, the feasible layout scheme was obtained, and the reasonable general layout of the plant area was determined by using the weighted factor method. As a critical functional unit of the factory area, the detailed planning and design of the disassembly and shredding workshop were further presented. A detailed facility layout and logistics route of the disassembly and shredding workshop are finally proposed according to the obtained correlation diagram of the operating unit area based SLP, which has been implemented in a recycling company in Changsha, a typical case in China. Combined with the theoretical techniques of statistics, intelligent algorithms, and logistics analysis under the background of modern green production and sustainable manufacturing, this work can provide a new approach for plant layout design and optimization for ELV recycling and disassembly industry.
Highlights
End of life vehicle (ELV) is a significant renewable resource with substantial economic value and environmental value, and the efficient recycling of ELV has become the key to the green, sustainable and low-carbon development of the global vehicle industry [1]–[3]
The practical facility layout of the ELV recycling and disassembly plant plays a significant role in remanufacturing development, and it is a complex decision-making problem, including multiple influencing factors
A straightforward and practical approach called systematic layout planning (SLP) is adopted to determine the performance of the ELVs recycling and disassembly plant layout alternatives, and its application is shown
Summary
End of life vehicle (ELV) is a significant renewable resource with substantial economic value and environmental value, and the efficient recycling of ELV has become the key to the green, sustainable and low-carbon development of the global vehicle industry [1]–[3]. Japan, Australia, and the US both have well-established ELV regulations and management systems, and the effective recycling and disassembly of ELV are to better follow-up related activities, such as remanufacturing [4]. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Yungang Zhu. of ELV recycling and disassembly activities determines the material quality and remanufacturing development of vehicle remanufacturing, highlighting the importance of recycling disassembly [5]. A large volume of published studies focusing on micro-researches of ELV recycling and disassembly technology through the algorithm and experimental simulation of partially to optimize a link in the industry.
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