Assembly sequence planning of automobile body components based on liaison graph

Purpose – This paper presents an algorithm for the generation of mechanical assembly sequences.Design/methodology/approach – The algorithm employs an adjacency matrix, and uses three different mathematical patterns of subassemblies to generate automatically all geometrical feasible assembly sequences.Findings – This algorithm cannot only generate automatically all geometrical feasible assembly sequences but also reduce the number of sequences.Originality/value – Assembly modeling is more completed than that of previous research; the method is able to automatically generate all possible assembly sequences and be implemented easily with program; and this paper makes use of exact mathematical equations describing every subgroup of the three‐subassembly patterns.