Study on Process Planning System for Holonic Manufacturing (3rd Report, Process Planning Considering Machining Schedules)

Generative System for Manufacturing Process Planning

Semi-generative System for Manufacturing Process Planning

The generative method is a subject of theoretical and experimental research. Difficulties with its implementation are connected with the lack of formal description of the synthesis of activities constituting the manufacturing process. To overcome the difficulties while developing the huge technological knowledge base, a semigenerative method is often used. In this method the pattern is characte...

Machine availability monitoring and machining process planning towards Cloud manufacturing

Cloud manufacturing as a trend of future manufacturing would provide cost-effective, flexible and scalable solutions to companies by sharing manufacturing resources as services with lower support and maintenance costs. Targeting the Cloud manufacturing, the objective of this research is to develop an Internetand Web-based service-oriented system for machine availability monitoring and process p...

Automated Process Planning for CNC Machining

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...

A holonic architecture of the concurrent integrated process planning system

This paper describes a conceptual architecture of applying holon to process planning (PP) for integrating design, PP, and shop floor scheduling so that a concurrent integrated process planning system (CIPPS) is constructed. The problem in PP has been mapped onto a holonic architecture based on multistage cooperation. A holonic architecture for CIPPS integrates all the activities of PP into a di...