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Assembly sequence planning of automobile body components based on liaison graph

Y. Xing (Body Manufacturing Technology Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China)
G. Chen (Body Manufacturing Technology Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China)
X. Lai (Body Manufacturing Technology Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China)
S. Jin (Body Manufacturing Technology Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China)
J. Zhou (Body Manufacturing Technology Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China)

Assembly Automation

ISSN: 0144-5154

Article publication date: 24 April 2007

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper presents an algorithm for the generation of mechanical assembly sequences.

Design/methodology/approach

The algorithm employs an adjacency matrix, and uses three different mathematical patterns of subassemblies to generate automatically all geometrical feasible assembly sequences.

Findings

This algorithm cannot only generate automatically all geometrical feasible assembly sequences but also reduce the number of sequences.

Originality/value

Assembly modeling is more completed than that of previous research; the method is able to automatically generate all possible assembly sequences and be implemented easily with program; and this paper makes use of exact mathematical equations describing every subgroup of the three‐subassembly patterns.

Keywords

Citation

Xing, Y., Chen, G., Lai, X., Jin, S. and Zhou, J. (2007), "Assembly sequence planning of automobile body components based on liaison graph", Assembly Automation, Vol. 27 No. 2, pp. 157-164. https://doi.org/10.1108/01445150710733423

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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