The Use of Virtual Manufacturing Features in forward Manufacturing Process Planning

Integration of Process Planning for Distributed Manufacturing in Virtual Environment

Production process planning in real or virtual environment refers to the choice of parameters and sequencing of certain manufacturing processes with the aim to obtain the required product features with greater productivity, reduced production costs, shorter development time etc. Therefore, innovative systems for virtual process planning, based on intelligent agents, greatly improve adaptation t...

Graphical Simulation for Process Planning in Virtual Manufacturing

A graphical simulation system for process planning is presented. Only machined rotational parts are considered in this paper. Feature-based representation is used to build the solid model of the parts and is the basis of the process plan. A simulator is developed to simulate the sequence of the process plan. It provides a mechanism to verify the feasibility of the process plan and to check whet...

Process Planning Optimization in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

There is a time for all things: a time for shouting, a time for gentle speaking, a time for silence, a time for washing pots and a time for writing journal papers and books. It is hard to make a BEGINNING, and will become harder, but IT MUST BE DONE. So be vigilant and vigorous for that will cover a " multitude of sins ". And do not frown. And remember: " Work banishes those three great evils: ...

Hierarchical Knowledge-Based Process Planning in Manufacturing

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...

Generative System for Manufacturing Process Planning