An assembly sequence planning approach with a rule-based multi-state gravitational search algorithm

• Main Authors: Ibrahim, I., Ibrahim, Z., Ahmad, Hamzah, Jusof, M.F.M., Yusof, Z.M., Nawawi, S.W., Mubin, M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/15700/1/An_assembly_sequence_planning_approach_with_a_rule-based_multi-state.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/15700/; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-015-6857-0

Assembly sequence planning (ASP) becomes one of the major challenges in product design and manufacturing. A good assembly sequence leads to reduced costs and duration in the manufacturing process. However, assembly sequence planning is known to be a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization probl...