Assembly planning attempts to arrange product assembly sequences on the bas
is of the input of product description, similar assembly plans and assembly
constraints. Assembly planning is frequently viewed as a creative thinking
process, which requires extensive assembly planning experience. Assembly p
roduct modeling with mechanical connection functions has increasingly focus
ed on assembly sequence planning. When considering the connection functions
, the relationships between assembled components can act as a foundation fo
r assembly clustering. Despite the merits of assembly sequence planning in
lieu of considering connection functions, previous investigations have focu
sed primarily on product representation with the connector concept. However
, to our knowledge, generation of the assembly sequence on the basis of the
connector concept has not been previously discussed. In this study, we pre
sent a novel means of generating assembly sequences on the basis of the con
nector concept. The proposed method initially defines different types of co
nnectors and representation schemes. Through the definition and representat
ion scheme, an assembly product can be decomposed into a set of connector-b
ased assembly elements. The connector-based assembly elements then serve as
input for an assembly sequence generation algorithm, which is connector-ba
sed, to generate an assembly sequence. The final output is a connector-base
d assembly sequence graph, resembling an assembly precedence diagram. In ad
dition, this graph can act as the input for any line balance method when de
signing work elements for each assembly workstation.