在製造技術不斷的進步與電腦軟體越來越強大的輔助之下，產品設計師面對種種艱難的設計問題時，已經能夠有效的逐一克服，也因此除了造型與機能的考量之外，產品設計有了更大的彈性可以因應來自生產者與消費者兩方面的需求。而產品設計上最容易出現的錯誤，則在於各部門之間的溝通，若採用同步工程的方式來進行設計，則可以解決設計上各部門各自為政的問題，減少因為模具，製造或裝配的因素，而造成設計變更的情形。然而，由於設計上的疏忽，許多設計師在進行產品的開發時，往往會忽略裝配過程可能產生的問題。

裝配過程活動的研究，主要分為兩大類，第一類為裝配操作上的研究，主要是解決如何將一個構件如何與另一個構件結合的問題。另一類則為裝配順序的研究，則為找出一個產品最適合的裝配順序的一種規劃行為，一個良好的裝配順序對於整個展品生產的效率有著很重要的影響。

本研究主要針對產品的裝配順序，發展一套裝配順序組合產生的規劃方法，一個好的規劃方法，不僅僅只是產生切實可行的裝配順序組合，同時還要能夠由其中找出最適合的一組裝配順序，而產品所有可行的裝配順序數量多時，一個有效的裝配順序規劃方法就顯得相當有必要，本研究除了裝配順序的規劃外，同時發展兩個次裝配擷取的裝配順序規劃輔助程序，以降低電腦運算的複雜度。對於所發展的方法，本研究採用一個現有的咖啡壺產品作為案例說明，希望透過裝配順序法則的研究，以及電腦化的程序，來提高產品設計師對於裝配順序的決策效率，使產品設計符合同步工程的精神並強化產品設計的品質。

Hign manufacturing technology and powerful computer software are two important tools for the improvement of product quality and value. With these two useful tools, product designers can overcome lots of critical problem easily. Therefore designers can contribute their efforts to settle more commands from manufacturers and customers.

Concurrent engineering design can be used to avoid separation of each member in a teamwork. If product designers consider problems that might happen in the manufacturing process, the quality of design and product will be promoted. And save the cost in mold manufacturing processes, manufacturing process and assembly process. However, designers seldom consider the assembly problems in their development of a product. In fact, the concept of design for assembly is not newly introduced, but many designers always ignore the problem of assembly process. The assembly process is a combinational optimization problem with the execution of assembly operations and the selection of the assembly sequence of a product. In the assembly operations each operation joins one part of product with another part to form a larger one. The assembly sequence to a product has significant effect on the efficiency of the whole assembly process.

This research focus on the study of assembly sequences in product design procedure. Assembly sequences planning is one field with assembly process. A systematic procedure is needed not only to generate feasible assembly sequences but also to find an optimal sequence to the product. In order to select the most suitable one. However, since there usually exists a large number of feasible sequences, an efficient method to generate assembly sequence is necessary. This research develop assembly sequences assistance procedures to deal with the problem of generating assembly sequences to designers. The applications of the assistance procedures are illustrated using the coffeemaker product. The general approach steps for this research are (1) to develop an easy assembly sequences planner with the assembly rules, (2)to use the computer software in the generation of assembly sequences, and(3)to enhance the computing efficiency by searching for the subassembly. The assembly sequences are then described in a form of hierarchical structure. The results will provide designers with an efficient design procedure without computational complexities.

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黃開義、池文海、黃永清，〝以動態規劃方法求解最佳裝配順序〞，中國工業工程學會八十二年度論文集，頁212-218，民國八十二年，中國工業工程學會。
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