Bi-Objective Optimization for an Integrated Facility Location and Disassembly Line Balancing Problem
Abstract
As an essential step during product recovery, disassembly has gained widespread attention with the growing awareness of sustainable development, and various problems around disassembly have been investigated. This paper integrates the facility location and disassembly line balancing problem to minimize the total cost as well as minimize the cycle time of the disassembly line. For the studied problem, a bi-objective mixed-integer programming model is formulated. Based on the problem properties, an epsilon-constraint method is proposed to solve the studied problem. Numerical experiments on an illustrative example and benchmark instances are conducted to demonstrate our proposed model and method.