WebCAPP: Collaborative Intelligent Process Planning System

This paper reports the design and implementation issues of WebCAPP: an intelligent Process Planning system for prismatic machined components. WebCAPP has been designed to function with Palantir, the web based collaborative part modeling environment indigenously developed. Clients from any location can collaboratively create CAD part models and submit them to the WebCAPP server to carry out tasks such as setup planning, GA based operation sequencing, CNC code generation and simulation. CNC program can be transmitted to a remote CNC machine for telemanufacturing. WebCAPP was tested for number of components and was found to generate optimal process plans in a consistent manner.