Variants of Process Planning - Step Toward Production Planning

This work is a part of the project creating the WEB application necessary for improvement of process planning through connection MySQL database with PhP in Internet environment. As different process planners have different experience, it is not wonder that for the same product, different process planners will create different processes. So, integrative nature across the traditional disciplines, such as digital tools for communication, interdisciplinary, virtual environment and multi-skill teams would connect process planning in WEB environment and variants of production with the ideas of Management of Manufacturing, Virtual Manufacturing, CIM/CAPP concept, new approaches in the field of manufacturing strategy, etc. Here we have elaborated few variants of product machining in process plans by analysis of full factorial 22 model. Response of production time is resulted by very high significance of factor M (level of machine tools automation). Index of determination for this model was 0.9980. We have analysed results of algorithm for obtaining quantitative nature of shape complexity. In the next phase of our investigation we would include shape complexity of the final product or result of primary process as the important factor on production times/costs in factorial design and regression analysis.