Jj. Dong et al., MANUFACTURING PROCESS PLANNING IN A CONCURRENT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT, Computers & industrial engineering, 30(1), 1996, pp. 83-93
Concurrent design and manufacturing attempts to consider all aspects o
f the product during the early stage of design to avoid the costly and
time consuming downstream traditional design and manufacturing proces
ses. Process planning links design and manufacturing. This paper discu
sses the roles of manufacturing process planning in a concurrent engin
eering environment ind the research on the development of prototype fe
ature-based automated process planning (FBAPP) system for concurrent d
esign and manufacturing.