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PCBs are present in most modern electronics. Manufacturers have placed a heavy emphasis on optimising manufacturing to remain competitive, especially assembly time per board in order to reduce assembly cost. The target of this research is to evaluate and study the possibilities of applying a new search operator derived based on TRIZ principles into a meta-heuristic search algorithm, the Bees Algorithm, to solve the optimisation problem of PCB assembly using a Chip Shooter Machine. The TRIZ inventive principle selected for this research was “The Other Way Around” principle. This principle was applied into Bees Algorithm, alongside proven search operators of Segmentation, Local Quality and Dynamisation. The impact of the new operator was determined by average shortest assembly time and PCB travel distance. Introducing the new operator with older operators provided shorter average solution times in 10 runs experiments and resulted in faster convergence times with lower iterations.
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The authors would like to thank the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, for supporting the work through research grants, GUP-2018–124 and FRGS/1/2018/TK03/UKM/02/6.
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Lim, J.C., Ng, K.W., Ang, M.C. (2021). Search Operators Based on TRIZ for Optimising PCB Assembly Time. In: Badioze Zaman, H., et al. Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13051. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90235-3_31
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