Abstract: As an important part of Green Manufacturing, disassembly is a way to save natural resource, to protect environment and to realize sustainable development of manufacturing industry. By collection, classification and study of the achievements on disassembly of mechanical and eletr(on)ic products, the state-of-arts of design for disassembly, disassembly process planning, disassembly technology and tools, and disassembly system configuration are presented. Several problems on disas-sembly that need be further studied and developed are also dis-cussed.

Key words: Design for disassembly, Disassembly process planning, Disassembly system configuration, Disassembly technology, Disassembly tool