A collaborative approach to assembly sequence planning

Authors:
Tianyang Dong;Ruofeng Tong;Ling Zhang;Jinxiang Dong
Affiliations:
College of Software Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, China;Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;Department of Economics and Management, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China;Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Venue:
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Distributed product development requires collaborative work among team members. For the sake of supporting assembly planning activities involving geographically dispersed designers, this paper presents an approach of collaborative assembly sequence planning to validate the assemblability of parts and subassemblies rapidly. In order to increase the planning efficiency and support the collaborative planning, role-based model is exploited to compress or simplify the product. In role-based model, the B-rep models are simplified according to the permissions associated with the role, so the surfaces invisible from outside of the model are removed. In collaborative planning, the planning tasks are assigned to different designers that carry out the collaborative planning, respectively. In this paper, a knowledge-based approach is proposed to the assembly sequence planning problem. This research shows that the typical or standard CSBAT (Connection Semantics Based Assembly Tree) can be applied to a given assembly problem. This paper presents the structure of the Co-ASP (Collaborative Assembly Sequence Planning System) and provides an example to illustrate the collaborative planning approach.