A rule based assembly sequence generation method for product design

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-308

  Lin, Ming Chyuan ^a   Tai, Yuan Yeuan ^a   Chen, Ming Shi ^a   Chang, C Alec ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly sequence; Contact relation matrix; Matrix representation; Product design

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION;

ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE; CONTACT RELATION MATRIX; MATRIX REPRESENTATION;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 34848887461     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: 15312003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X07083084     Document Type: Article

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