Product assembly and disassembly sequences are the most crucial operations in product lifecycle. In this paper, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique, namely Genetic Algorithm (GA) is proposed to optimize product components assembly and disassembly sequences.The proposed methodology is developed and tested on an industrial product made of plastics with no integrated assembly and permanent joint parts.GA method is applied to determine the accuracy and optimum results based on 20 assembly and disassembly sequence solutions that was generated by the Design for Assembly methodology.The results indicated that GA based approach is able to obtain a near optimal solution for assembly and disassembly sequences.
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