Assembly planning research at CSIRO Australia

A concurrent engineering research project at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia (CSIRO) is addressing the issue of concurrent planning of parts and assembly with a view to developing an integrated software which will help to reduce the planning time and provide effective management of parts manufacture and assembly activities on day to day basis. The research activity recently delivered an assembly planning software for industrial trials. The research effort focused on part attributes for assembly, the generic assembly tasks involved, the issue of precedence in assembly, the equipment requirements, the assembly times, and the line balancing for single and mixed model productions. This paper presents an overview of this development.