Development of a design procedure for automatic assembly system

The paper is aimed at development of concurrent engineering (CE) assembly planning methodology and tools, trying to establish a general and integral approach to assembly system planning and modeling, urging the need for connection between assembly planning field and concepts that usually lay outside engineering domain, and involvement of still uncovered and computer non-implemented aspects of the planning. As the basis for mentioned, seven variants of the assembly system for a simple product are presented. The variants are compared regarding several criteria and the most appropriate is chosen.