Heuristic rules and strategies of assembly planning: experiment and implications in the design of assembly decision support system

Abstract

Abstract It has been observed from an experiment that engineers efficient performance of assembly planning is attributed to their utilization of heuristic rules to generate soft constraints of the assembly sequence, the breadth-first strategy to develop the rough, global plan of the assembly sequence, and the consistent, systematic strategy to finalize the detailed, local plan of the assembly sequence. Those characteristics of the engineers’ assembly planning are used to design the user-centred decision support system to assembly planning. Additional informationNotes on contributorsN. YE To whom correspondence should be addressed.