“…Petri nets a flashlight (4) Caselli and Zanichelli (1995) and a ball-point pen (5) Suzuki et al (1993); 2. simulated annealing a relay (10) Hong and Cho (1999); 3. neural networks a pince (4), a hinge (4) and a coupling system (7) Cem Sinanoglu (2005), a gearbox (10) Chen (1992), a relay (10) and an alternator (13) Hong and Cho (1995), and an electric torch (16) Chen et al (2008); 4. genetic algorithms an oil pump (5) Bonneville et al (1995), an industrial controller (19) Guan et al (2002), an hydraulic linear motor (25) Marian et al (2006), an air condition control (28) Sebaaly et al (1996), a signaling relay ( This list -which by no means pretends to be exhaustive-should be interpreted as an illustration of the variety of assemblies dealt with in the existing literature, not as a ranking of the suitability of the different sequencing and optimization algorithms. Furthermore, the examples provided by the authors are generally more oriented towards explaining how their algorithms work than to demonstrate their performance.…”