Manufacturing Feature Library as a Manufacturing Information Management System for Process Planning

A manufacturing feature can be defined simply as a geometric shape and its manufacturing information to create the shape. For the generation of process plans in a manufacturing feature-based process planning system, it is necessary to develop a manufacturing feature library that consists of predefined manufacturing features and the manufacturing information to create the shape of the features. In other words, manufacturing feature library plays an important role for the extraction of manufacturing features with their proper manufacturing information. However, to manage the manufacturing information flexibly, it is important to build a manufacturing feature library that is easy to manage. In this paper, the implementation of Semantic Wiki for the development of the manufacturing feature library as the manufacturing information management system is proposed.