Examining the technology acceptance for dismantling of waste printed circuit boards in light of recycling and environmental concerns

H Duan, K Hou, J Li, X Zhu - Journal of environmental management, 2011 - Elsevier
The dismantling of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) and the recovery of their useful
materials can lead to serious environmental impacts mainly due to their complicated …

A survey of surface mount device placement machine optimisation: Machine classification

M Ayob, G Kendall - European Journal of Operational Research, 2008 - Elsevier
The optimisation of a printed circuit board assembly line is mainly influenced by the
constraints of the surface mount device (SMD) placement machine and the characteristics of …

Optimization of the pick-and-place sequence of a bimanual collaborative robot in an industrial production line

J Borrell, C Perez-Vidal, JV Segura - The International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
This paper focuses on optimising pick-and-place tasks performed by a dual-arm
collaborative robot in a specific shoe manufacturing industry environment. The robot must …

Efficient metaheuristics for pick and place robotic systems optimization

S Daoud, H Chehade, F Yalaoui, L Amodeo - Journal of Intelligent …, 2014 - Springer
This paper deals with a pick and place robotic system design problem. The objective is to
present an efficient method which is able to optimize the performances of the robotic system …

PCB assembly optimization in a single gantry high-speed rotary-head collect-and-place machine

D Li, SW Yoon - The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing …, 2017 - Springer
This paper presents an optimization study of the single gantry high-speed rotary-head
collect-and-place (CAP) surface mount device (SMD) machine. The rotary-head gantry-type …

Clustering-based heuristic to optimize nozzle and feeder assignments for collect-and-place assembly

D Li, T He, SW Yoon - IEEE Transactions on automation …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a clustering-based heuristic, named average Chebyshev linkage
directed search (ACLDS), to optimize the nozzle and feeder assignments in a single spin …

The optimisation of the single surface mount device placement machine in printed circuit board assembly: a survey

M Ayob, G Kendall - International Journal of Systems Science, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This article surveys research on the single surface mount device (SMD) placement machine
optimisation problem. We classify the optimisation problem into five sub-problems: feeder …

Manipulation order optimization in industrial pick-and-place operations: application to textile and leather industry

FJ Martínez-Peral, H Migallón, J Borrell-Méndez… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
This work addresses the problem of the development of a robotic system for the picking of
parts cut by a CNC machine and the optimization of the sequencing of this picking process …

An aggregated optimization model for multi-head SMD placements

J Ashayeri, N Ma, R Sotirov - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
In this article we propose an aggregate optimization approach by formulating the multi-head
SMD placement optimization problem into a mixed integer program (MIP) with the variables …

[HTML][HTML] System identification of a pick-and-place mechanism driven by a permanent magnet synchronous motor

RF Fung, CL Chiang, GC Wu - Applied mathematical modelling, 2010 - Elsevier
The main objective of this study is to utilize two dynamic models: a mathematical model and
a simple model, to identify a pick-and-place mechanism (PPM) which is driven by a …