DEVELOPMENT OF FEATURE LIBRARY FOR A PROCESS PLANNING SYSTEM

For the generation of process plans of a part type based on the manufacturing features recognized from the product design information, a feature library where manufacturing features can refer to their corresponding manufacturing information is needed. In this paper, we describe the creation of ontology of manufacturing features for the development of a feature library. The creation of manufacturing features ontology is done by considering the designer’s intention described in the functional data of the face elements that construct the features. The goal of this ontology creation is to make the feature library be useful for the automated extraction of proper manufacturing information for the generation of process plans.