... in a multistation assembly system for a product family. This objective is accomplished by (1) the use of a multistation assembly process model for the product family, and (2) minimizing the combined sensitivity of the products to fixture variation. The optimization considers the feasibility of the locator layout...

... process yield. Major challenges involving the design of a set of fixture layouts for multistation assembly system can be enumerated into three categories: (1) high-dimensional design space since a large number of locators are involved in the multistation system, (2) large and complex design space for each...