Research Initiation: A Test Bed of Integrated Process Planning Systems

过去二十年见证了许多计算机辅助工艺规划系统的发展，每种系统都有其特定的优点和缺点。在这些系统中存在相当大的数据重叠；然而，由于数据结构没有标准化，数据不能被接口、交换、集成或通信。对这些问题只进行了有限的调查，有些方面完全被忽略了。本课题的目标是开发一个集成工艺规划系统的试验台，该试验台可用于测试多种工艺规划功能的灵活性和数据标准化。这些项目将与美国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.