An object-oriented model for generating assembly sequences

The object-oriented approach to software development concentrates on objects and their interacting behaviors. This approach fits naturally into software development in engineering applications because many of these applications deal with physical objects and their properties. This paper is a contribution to applying the object-oriented approach to modeling software for mechanical assembly sequencing problem. An object-oriented model is proposed by the author which is derived from the AND/OR graph model. The goal of this paper is to prove the equivalence of these two models by showing that the result of an operation performed on either model will lead to the same state, provided that the system is in the same state in both the models before the operation is performed.