Today's customers are characterized by individual requirements that lead the manufacturing
industry to increased product variety and volume reduction. Manufacturing systems and …

Product development requires sharing information of a diverse nature between several
actors. Since the new products resulting from this process often require assembly as part of …

Assembly motion simulation is crucial during conceptual product design to identify potential
assembly issues and enhance assembly efficiency. This paper presents a novel assembly …

Currently, the content-based retrieval is a problem of major interest in several different fields
and, focusing on mechanical engineering, many approaches exist to compare and retrieve …

The work here presented is part of a wider research project aimed at extracting and using in
industrial applications high level semantic information from 3D product models that are …

In the context of an increasingly automated and personalized manufacturing mode, efficient
assembly sequence planning (ASP) has emerged as a critical factor for enhancing …

The designer generates a variant product by applying several design suggestions that
fulfilled a variety of customer requirements. These design suggestions rely on multiple …

Even if during the Product Design Process, assembly models are described in terms of their
constitutive components and associated relationships, only the position of each component …

Content-based CAD assembly model retrieval focuses more on the similarity measure of
geometry and topology information, which can hardly meet designers' design requirements …

ABSTRACT CAD assemblies are essentially reduced to a set of components, often solids,
and a user-defined tree structure. Given the generation process of CAD assembly models …