REPRESENTATION OF MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT AND STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE BASE IN A CAPP SYSTEM

摘要

Process Planning of a product determines the process activities during its manufacturing process. Transformation of the product from design to its final form by process planning is controlled by its manufacturing environment. In this paper, the systematic representation of a manufacturing environment and a hierarchical data model to represent a process plan is studied and introduced for the flexibility of the Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) system and for the integration purpose. An event-driven architecture for the design of general CAPP systems is established based on these models. A CAPP system (U-CAPP) developed by the authors based on these concepts is briefly described.