Evolvable Assembly and Exploiting Emergent Behaviour

This paper details the recent development within evolvable assembly systems, including ontological, methodological, and application developments. This paradigm was recently proposed as an answer to the requirements faced by assembly companies in the current world of business and technological changes. EAS, as with other similar approaches, offers great opportunities for attaining true agility and cost- effective, stepwise automation. EAS does imply that the manner in which we develop and create projects for the development of assembly systems are radically changed, assuming a more synthesis-based approach.