Process-Based Assembly Technical Annotation Management in 3D Assembly Instruction

In order to instruct on-site workers to accomplish the assembly job fast and exactly, improve the assembly quality and efficiency, we proposed a management method for assembly technical annotation in 3D assembly instruction. This method maps 3D technical annotations to assembly operation and assembly time based on time sequence granularity, achieves the goal of showing assembly technical annotations based on assembly process. We demonstrated the effectiveness of this method with a satellite antenna feed components assembly process instance. The instance shows that this method can mark assembly technical annotations based on assembly process, and show the annotations in time sequence but not in assembly space. This will help on-site assembly workers to understand the assembly order fast and unambiguously, finish the assembly operations correctly.