Robotic ease of Disassembly Metric (Re-DiM)

Time-based metric for quantifying disassembly effort

Step-by-Step Workflow of the Re-DiM Tool

Re-DiM, which stands for Robotic Ease of Disassembly Metric, is a time-based method developed to assess the effort required to disassemble products manually, robotically, and through human-robot cooperation.

With Re-DiM, the disassembly time can be quantified in a non-subjective manner to identify opportunities for improving the product design in four steps:

After preparatory work (1),
the metric can be filled with all required information (2),
to evaluate the estimated time for manual and robotic disassembly efforts (3).
Each disassembly step can be analysed in detail and findings help to identify improvement strategies to ease the disassembly (4).

Detailed step-by-step instructions are included in the Excel.

For questions about the Re-DiM Tool, contact redim@sude.be.

The Re-DiM tool was developed under the SCANDERE project granted from the ERA-MIN3 program under grant number 101003575.