USING SIMULATED ANNEALING METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION EXPLORATION IN ASSEMBLY PLANNING

ABSTRACTAssembly planning attempts to arrange product assembly sequences on the basis of the input of product description, similar assembly plans and assembly constraints. When considering the assembly planning, the relationships between assembled components can act as important information for assembly planning. The engineer will plan the assembly sequence to consider the related constraint factors. These constraint factors include assembly time, cost, machine idle time…etc. Combining optimization is the problem which the designers must always face in the design refinement process. This problem is to search the optimal solution between the design variables which determine the better product layout. Because this issue is difficulty be solved to use traditional optimizing technique like the linear programming. In this project, we want to use the method of Simulated Annealing to solve combining optimization question. These results will handle the design refinement process and will expand the connector-based product model.