Queueing Modeling of Material Sorting Disassembly System with Overflows

This study focuses on a material sorting disassembly system with overflows for recycling, and models it using queueing analysis to measure quantitatively the productivity and effectiveness by their design parameter such as arrival rate at system, service rate and the number of buffers at each station, and the number of the disassembly stations. The material sorting system has multiple and different disassembly stations and one sorting station, and the arriving units to each station are inevitably overflowed when the finite capacity of buffers is full because conveyors are often used as a material handling for large and heavy End-of-Life products.