Research Initiation: A Test Bed of Integrated Process Planning Systems

在过去的二十年里，许多计算机辅助工艺设计系统得到了发展，每一种系统都有各自的优缺点。在这些系统之间存在相当大的数据重叠；然而，由于数据结构不标准化，数据不能接口、交换、集成或通信。对这些问题只进行了有限的调查，有些方面完全被忽视了。本项目的目标是开发一个集成工艺设计系统的试验台，用于测试各种工艺设计功能的灵活性和数据标准化。这些项目将与国家标准与技术研究所的工艺规划试验台实验室合作进行。

The past two decades have witnessed the development of many Computer Aided Process Planning Systems, each of which has specific advantages and disadvantages. Among these systems there exists considerable data overlap; yet the data cannot be interfaced, exchanged, integrated, or communicated because the data structures are not standardized. Only limited investigation has taken place with respect to the problems, and some aspects have been ignored altogether. The object of this project is to develop a test bed of integrated process planning systems, which can be used for testing flexibility and data standardization of a variety of process planning functions. The projects will be conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's process planning test bed laboratory.