“…The optimum set of parameters found to be able to provide the optimal/near optimal assembly sequence in reasonable time is population size of 10, fraction of worst eggs that are thrown out 10%, probability used in generating new eggs to replace those that are thrown out 90%. After the CS algorithm is run using the above set of parameters, the optimal assembly sequence obtained is [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14] with fitness value of 1.5269, requiring 7 tool changes, 4 reorientation changes, stability index of 9, having the base component at the first location of the assembly sequence, and most importantly the sequence was found to have no feasibility (precedence) violations. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed CS algorithm, it is compared with Improved Harmony Search (IHS) algorithm [12].…”