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Used as a tool to get manufacturability feedback in early design stages, an assembly sequence planner would be a boon to designers. By pressing a button, an engineer could receive an assembly plan or set of plans for the product being designed, along with estimates of production time and cost. The design could then be adjusted to make it easier to build. But to be most useful, such a tool must be both autonomous and fast. If the designer has to do a great deal of geometric reasoning for the planner or wait days for the system to do it automatically, the assembly planner will be used infrequently, and the impact on the design will be minimal.
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Wilson, R.H., Rit, JF. (1991). Maintaining geometric dependencies in assembly planning. In: Homem de Mello, L.S., Lee, S. (eds) Computer-Aided Mechanical Assembly Planning. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 148. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4038-0_9
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