With the development of manufacturing, some new philosophy of manufacture have been occurred, for example CIMS, CE, MV. Under this situation, assembly of product has become the bottleneck of the development of manufacturing.

• 由于制造业的发展，近些年来出现了计算机集成制造、并行工程、虚拟制造等先进制造理念，并得到了迅速发展。 这种环境下，产品的装配成为制造业发展的一个“瓶颈”，因此计算机辅助装配序列规划成为必然的趋势。