A Literature Survey for an Emerging Field of Formulating Assembly Procedures While Developing a Product

This paper surveys studies of mechanical assembly for developing complicate products from various prospects, i.e., feature, constraint, mating, modeling, motion, and relationships. Firstly, a brief introduction is given on how to model features. Secondly, the types of relationships among assembly configurations are presented. Thirdly, choices of various model-structures for assembly information are surveyed. Finally, directions for further studies are suggested.