Turn-mill Process Plan and Intelligence Machining Operations Selection on STEP

Process Monitoring and Control of Machining Operations

Turn-Mill Tool Path Planning and Manufacturing Cost Analysis for Complex Parts Machining

This paper presents the techniques of tool path planning and an activity-based manufacturing cost analysis for the simultaneous turn-mill machining. The new turn-mill machine tools allow the parallel processing of both multi-axis milling and turning operations simultaneously. Turn-mill machine tools have been identified to be able to significantly reduce the total setup time and manufacturing c...

Manufacturing Real-time Process Plan Selection Based on System Performance

Today’s fast‐ pace manufacturing company environment requires that manufacturing decisions be made at the time when their impact will be the most relevant for the operations. The importance of the proper information and knowledge necessary for such decision can not be overstated. This paper discusses a procedure for the selection of process plans in real‐ time, during the manufacturing executio...

Approach for the Development of a Heuristic Step-nc Based Process Planning Tool for Sequencing Nc Machining Operations

This chapter deals with the process planning for sequencing NC (numerical control) machining operations. This task of selecting and ordering of machining operations is still done manually in principle. In order to overcome this problem, an approach for enabling the automatic preparation of work plans with methods known from the graph theory is introduced in this chapter. Therefore a work plan i...

An intelligent process planning system for prismatic parts using STEP features

This paper presents an intelligent process planning system using STEP features (ST-FeatCAPP) for prismatic parts. The system maps a STEP AP224 XML data file, without using a complex feature recognition process, and produces the corresponding machining operations to generate the process plan and corresponding STEP-NC in XML format. It carries out several stages of process planning such as operat...