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

现在，复杂的软件工具已经独立地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），以及制造企业的许多其他功能。制造企业的总体吞吐量的显著提高现在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想法，将数据库集成到工业级软件。 数据表示，通用性，同步和通信将得到解决。 集成环境的体系结构将足够灵活，因此可以很容易地与这些应用程序的各种软件解决方案一起使用。 本研究的目的是为现有的制造数据库统一为公共的数据模型和同步这些数据库的方法创建一个理论基础。 本研究的结果应使一个集成的CAD，CAPP和MRP系统的开发模型和评估产品设计对组织的生产资源的影响。 通过各种系统的反馈将允许制造商减少工艺规划和调度中的非生产时间，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.