D. An et al., A PRODUCT DATA EXCHANGE INTEGRATION STRUCTURE USING PDES STEP FOR AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS/, Computers & industrial engineering, 29, 1995, pp. 711-715
This article describes an integration structure of product data exchan
ge with PDES/STEP using object-oriented approach for automated manufac
turing applications. A data carrier is provided for the data operation
al process in the integration structure, In the data carrier, these da
ta are derived from previous operations and the CAD data are translate
d into a neutral file that is based on the EXPRESS language representa
tion and PDES/STEP data definition. As an international standard of pr
oduct data exchange, PDES;STEP is intended to provide-information for
all engineering applications without considering hardware, software, o
r processes. This application of the integrated structure with a neutr
al file is explained by an example on an HP/UNIX X Window system using
object-oriented programming, CLIPS inference software, and I-DEAS sof
tware.