This paper presents a web-based assembly planning approach that enables geographically dispersed planners to carry out the assembly planning task collaboratively and concurrently based on an assembly planning approach using a multiobjective genetic algorithm. Issues in web-based assembly planning are discussed and a workflow is presented. A framework is proposed for web-based assembly planning and the working mechanism is discussed. Finally, a case study is given to verify the proposed approach.
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