Product Design Scheme Generation and Optimization Decisions While Considering Remanufacturability

Shixiong Xing, Zhigang Jiang, Xugang Zhang, Yan Wang

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Abstract

Social awareness of the environment has promoted the vigorous development of remanufacturing. Traditional product design does not consider the remanufacturability, which leads to improper disposal at the end of the product’s life, resulting in environmental pollution and resource waste. In this paper, a method for the generation and optimization of product design schemes was established, in which remanufacturability was included at the early design stage of the product. Firstly, based on axiomatic design, the Z-shaped mapping was upgraded to the tree topology mapping, which was then incorporated into the scheme generation model, and seven remanufacturability design constraint criteria were used as constraints to obtain a product design set of scenarios. Secondly, the entropy weight method and analytic hierarchy process were combined to calculate the weights of the four evaluation indicators: functionality, economy, stability, and environment; and a differential evolution algorithm was used to optimize the scheme. Finally, a lathe was taken as a case to illustrate the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed methodology. The results showed that the method could successfully generate product design schemes that improved remanufacturability and met the needs of users.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2477
Number of pages26
JournalMathematics
Volume10
Issue number14
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jul 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 52075396) and the National Key R&D Program of China (grant number 2018YFB2002103).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors.

Keywords

  • product design
  • remanufacturability
  • axiomatic design
  • scheme generation
  • scheme optimization
  • MSC: 68U99

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