An industry-based study of cutting process capability representation requirements for an integrated simultaneous engineering workstation

摘要

The drive to integrate process planning with design systems to achieve concurrent engineering places new demands on the knowledge used in automated process selection. This paper highlights the current fragmented and unstructured nature of cutting process capability representation. Advances made in developing complementary models needed to analyse spatial process con- straints are described in the context of an industrial case study and a simultaneous engineering workstation (SEW).