Development of integrated process planning and monitoring system for turning operation

Summary This paper deals with the development of a prototype system which integrates process planning interfaced with CAD system and process monitoring for CNC turning operation through the interlace and integration of data and knowledge processing. The integrated system is aimed for small and medium-sized machinery industry, and AutoCAD and CLPS which can be run on personal computer are used as a CAD system and an expert system shell for knowledge-based process planning, respectively. The test results to show the system performance indicate that this prototype system works well for turning operation.