The success of next generation automotive companies will depend upon their ability to adapt to
ever changing market trends thus becoming highly responsive. In the automotive sector, the
assembly line design and reconfiguration is an especially critical and extremely complex job. The
current research addresses some of the aspects of this activity under the umbrella of a larger
ongoing research project called Business Driven Automation (BDA) project. The BDA project
aims to carry out complete virtual 3D modeling-based verifications of the assembly line for new
or revised products in contrast to the prevalent practice of manual evaluation of effects of product
change on physical resources. [Continues.
