Although there is significant industrial need for comprehensive computer-aided process planning systems (CAPP), most traditional CAPP solutions have been fragmented in nature. This is because each CAPP domain (assembly, machining, inspection, etc.) has been treated independently. This paper argues in favor of adopting ‘feature-orientation’ as the unifying theme and describes a Generic CAPP Supp...

This paper first provides a general introduction to Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP). In second section, a brief review of Computational Intelligence (CI) applications in machining process planning and related methods and problems will be presented. The overall applications can be classified as knowledge representation, features extraction, part classification for group technology, machin...

Feature-driven CAPP is the dominant model for Computer-Aided Process Planning today. Despite more than a decade of effort, there are no general methods for defining or identifying features, and consequently CAPP approaches in full generality could not been developed. An alternate to feature-driven CAPP is direct tool access-based models for process planning, which rely on the fundamental geomet...

In a collaborative computer-supported engineering environment, the interoperation of various applications will need a representation that goes beyond the current geometry-based representation, which is inadequate for capturing semantic information. The primary purpose of this study is to discuss a semantically based information exchange protocol that will facilitate seamless interoperability am...

Knowledge discovery in database have been attracting a significant amount of research, industry attention in recent years. Process planning knowledge (PPK) is one of the most important knowledge in mechanical manufacturing enterprise. The traditional method of turning data into knowledge relies on manual analysis and interpretation. This paper analyzes the source and composing of process planni...

Volume 4, Issue 3, May – June 2015 Page 106 ABESTRACT In recent years, various researchers have come up with different ways and means to integrate CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing). The selection of machining parameters is an important process planning function for manufacturing processes.Typically, machining parameter selection is done manually. The user still ...

The Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) systems are recently developed in manufacturing engineering to provide links between Design (CAD) and Manufacturing (CAM) systems. CAPP by considering the different issues of computer applications production engineering. Optimization techniques can be applied increase efficiency part processes. energy consumption process analyzed optimized using order ...

Both the topics of Computer Aided Process Planning and Production Planning in the context of sheet metal air bending have been presented as standalone topics previously. This paper will focus on the interaction between both modules. Choices made by the CAPP-module seem to influence the possible gains that can be obtained in production planning and vice versa. The used procedures for both the CA...

Current manufacturing planning software systems (such as computer aided process planning (CAPP) systems) are general and in a closed form, i.e., i t i s very difficult to modify these systems to respond to a user's dynamically changing needs. These systems are not well suited to agile manufacturing. This research work aims at developing an architecture for rapid development of CAF'P systems. Th...

Artificial intelligence planning methods haven’t been used until rec ently to address the problem of computer-aided process planning (CAPP) in manufacturing in its entirety. They were simply not developed enough to tackle real-world problems of that complexity. In the paper we show that with so-called Hierarchical Task Networks, a recently matured general-purpose domainindependent planning meth...