Printed circuit boards (PCBs) play a vital role in our daily lives. With increasing applications of PCBs one way to increase a PCB manufacturer s competitiveness in terms of operation efficiency is to minimize production time. This is the first book to focus on the optimization of the PCB assembly lines efficiency; it integrates the component sequencing and the feeder arrangement problems together for the pick-and-place machine and the chip shooter machines; constructs mathematical models and develops an effective heuristic solution approach for the integrated problems of placement machines the line assignment problem and the component allocation problem; and develops a prototype of the PCB assembly planning system. The techniques proposed will enable process planners in the electronics industry to improve their assembly line s efficiency. Graduate students in operations research can use this to familiarize themselves with the techniques and applications of mathematical modeling.