In general, deep drawing products have various cross-section shapes such as cylindrical, rectangular and nonaxisymmetric shapes. The application of the surface area calculation to non-axisymmetric deep drawing process has not been published yet. In this research, a surface area calculation for non-axisymmetric deep drawing products with elliptical shape was constructed for a design of blank sha...

A large portion of today’s industrial manufacturing relies on subtractive machining, a process in which a fast-spinning tool successively removes material from raw stock, for example, a block of aluminum, in order to arrive at a part geometry as specified by a design engineer in a computer-aided design (CAD) file. Planning for this process typically involves identifying the sequence of orientat...

The use of effective software in Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) can contribute significantly towards cost reduction and improvement in production rate. The most important elements of CAPP are the ability to effectively evaluate various machining process sequences and the utilization of the most appropriate machining parameters including machines, tools and tool grades and tool angles, c...

Computer-aided process planning is the link between design and manufacturing in a computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) environment. The process planning problem comes out as a rigid hierarchical structure of tasks where the lowest levels are well defined tasks, such as determination of machine and cutting parameters, while the top levels control, coordinate, and manage the entire system. Suc...

Feature recognition is a discipline focusing on the design and implementation of algorithms for detecting manufacturing information such as holes, slots, etc. in a solid model. Automated feature recognition has been an active research area in solid modeling for many years, and is considered to be a critical component for CAD/CAM integration. This paper gives foundations for understanding the st...

The majority of research and commercial efforts in computer-based methods for design and manufacture relate to applications in Computer Aided Design (CAD), whilst research in Computer-Automated Process Planning (CAPP) has substantially enriched the design knowledge domain with concepts that originated in the manufacturing domain. The development of isolated computer applications was recognized ...

For lathe machining, pre-processing of the CAD data in Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) is essential since it is the link between CAD and CAM. Thus, cylindrical part model orientation is important to be determined in order to ensure the cutting parameter is correctly setup. Without proper orientation during the pre-processing of the cylindrical part model, further calculation and setup wi...

Over the last years, attention in the manufacturing cycle has shifted towards Concurrent Engineering (CE). With this, the integration of the different product life cycle processes has become a focus in both research and industry. However, it is obvious that the integration of all manufacturing processes, taking into account all life cycle aspects from initial functional requirements to final di...

Over the last years, attention in the manufacturing cycle has shifted towards Concurrent Engineering (CE). With this, the integration of the different product life cycle processes has become a focus in both research and industry. However, it is obvious that the integration of all manufacturing processes, taking into account all life cycle aspects from initial functional requirements to final di...