Research Information System
22nd European Conference on Operational Research, Praha, Czech Republic, 8 - 11 July 2007, pp.217
The performance of traditional lot sizing heuristics
in a disassembly environment
Z. Pelin Bayindir, Department of Industrial Engineering,
Middle East Technical University, Middle East Technical
University, Department of Industrial Engineering, 06531,
Ankara, Turkey, bayindir@ie.metu.edu.tr, Tulu Ertem
In this study we focus on a disassembly system where there are a number of end-of-life products (root) that can be disassembled to satisfy the
demand for their child (leaf) items. The demand for the leaves are assumed to be known over a finite planning horizon. There is a set-up cost
for disassembling roots, in addition to unit costs. Leaf item inventory is
kept. We propose a two-phase approach that utilizes traditional lot sizing
heuristics for determining the type and number of roots to be disassembled. A computational study is carried out to assess the performance of
the proposed approach.