GOALI/IUCRP: Integration of Computer Aided Design, ComputerAided Process Planning and Manufacturing Resources Planning Systems

现在存在复杂的软件工具，用于计算机辅助设计（CAD）、计算机辅助工艺规划（CAPP）和制造资源规划（MRP），以及用于制造企业的许多其他功能。现在，制造企业总体吞吐量的显著改进取决于优化从一个应用程序到另一个应用程序的信息流。这项研究将应用和扩展最近开发的集成数据库到工业级软件的想法。将讨论数据表示、通用性、同步和通信。集成环境的体系结构将足够灵活，因此可以轻松地与这些应用程序的各种软件解决方案一起使用。本研究旨在为将现有制造数据库统一为通用数据模型提供理论基础，并提出同步这些数据库的方法。这项研究的结果应该能够开发一个集成的CAD， CAPP和MRP系统来建模和评估产品设计对组织生产资源的影响。通过各种系统的反馈将允许制造商减少过程规划和调度中的非生产性时间，从而提高新产品的质量，上市时间和成本。

9523151 Judd Sophisticated software tools now exist for computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided process planning (CAPP), and manufacturing resources planning (MRP) independently, as well as for many of the other functions of a manufacturing enterprise. Attaining significant improvements in the overall throughput of the manufacturing enterprise now depends on optimizing the flow of information from one application to another. This research will apply and extend recently developed ideas integrating databases to industrial grade software. Data representation, commonality, sychronization, and communication will be addressed. The architecture for the integrated environment will be flexible enough so that it can easily be used with a variety of software solutions to these applications. This research aims to create a theoretical foundation for the unification of existing manufacturing databases into common data model with methods to synchronize these databases. The results of this research should enable the development of an integrated CAD, CAPP, and MRP system to model and evaluate the impact of product designs on an organization's production resources. Feedback through the various systems will allow a manufacturer to reduce unproductive time in process planning and scheduling and thus to improve the quality, time-to-market and cost of new products.