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A Heuristic Based on AHP and TOPSIS for Disassembly Line Balancing

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Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving

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Disassembly lines have become one of the most suitable ways for the disassembly of large products or small products in large quantities for efficient working of disassembly line; its design and balancing is prudent. In disassembly lines, task assignment in appropriate schedule is necessary for designing and balancing the line. In this paper, a heuristic based on multi criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique has been proposed for assignment of tasks to the disassembly workstations. In the proposed heuristic, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) has been used for the prioritizing of task for the assignment to workstations. The proposed heuristic has been compared to other heuristic and it has been found that it performs well and gives sufficiently better results.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Department, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India

    Shwetank Avikal

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  1. Dept of Applied Sci & Eng, Indian Instit of Tech Roorkee, Roorkee, India

    Millie Pant

  2. Department of Mathematics, Indian Inst of Tech Roorkee, Roorkee, India

    Kusum Deep

  3. Chankyapuri, Rm 327, South Asian Univ, Akbar Bhawan, New Delhi, India

    Jagdish Chand Bansal

  4. Department of Mathematics and Comp Sci, Liverpool Hope University, LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom

    Atulya Nagar

  5. Department of Mathematics, National Inst of Tech Silchar, Silchar, Assam, India

    Kedar Nath Das

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Shwetank Avikal (2016). A Heuristic Based on AHP and TOPSIS for Disassembly Line Balancing. In: Pant, M., Deep, K., Bansal, J., Nagar, A., Das, K. (eds) Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 436. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0448-3_69

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