Faced with fierce market competition, the life cycle of computer products is shorter than other products which caused the supply and demand changing quickly. If the PC assembly industries still adopted ERP for material planning, it cannot response to customer’s demands swiftly. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) system. The goal of APS is to solve a c...

Assembly planning and evaluation is an important component of the product that require frequent and intuitive manual interaction such as assembly methods (91) to create a desktop based virtual assembly system called HIDRA (Haptic. (3) implemented a computer-based system for virtual assemLooking at haptic interaction within virtual assembly training discrimination, part positioning, and manual a...

In order to find an optimum assembly sequence in engineering design domain, a knowledge-based virtual assembly approach was put forward. Virtual assembly design environment was also introduced, and knowledge representation models for virtual assembly rules and cases are introduced and studied respectively. A side-center virtual assembly method was applied to avoid the occurrence of assembly int...

Many evolutionary algorithms for assembly sequence planning (ASP) have been researched. But those algorithms have lots of blind searching because individuals have little consideration about geometry and assembly process information of product in the evolutionary process. To improve individuals' intelligence and decrease blind searching, motivated by the self-assembly computing and multi-agent e...

To improve solution efficiency and automation of assembly sequence planning, a symbolic ordered binary decision diagram (OBDD) technique for assembly sequence planning problem based on unordered partition with 2 parts of a positive integer is proposed. To convert the decomposition of assembly liaison graph into solving unordered partition with 2 parts of positive integer N, a transformation met...