J. Dong et Hr. Parsaei, DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A FEATURE-BASED AUTOMATED PROCESS PLANNING (FBAPP) SYSTEM, Computers & industrial engineering, 27(1-4), 1994, pp. 1-4
Feature-based process planning has been regarded as a key for the inte
gration of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturin
g (CAM). Features are the information carriers between design and manu
facturing. In this study, manufacturing features are extracted by a gr
aphical comparison of a finished part with a blank. The feature recogn
ition is performed using programs written in C and CLIPS expert system
. Process plans are generated based on the recognized feature informat
ion and production knowledge. The developed system is integrated with
the I-DEAS software (a MCAE product of SDRC).