Development of a Semantic Wiki-based Feature Library for the Extraction of Manufacturing Feature and Manufacturing Information

A manufacturing feature can be defined simply as a geometric shape and its manufacturing information to create the shape. In a feature-based process planning system, feature library that consists of pre-defined manufacturing features and the manufacturing information to create the shape of the features, plays an important role in the extraction of manufacturing features with their proper manufacturing information. However, to manage the manufacturing information flexibly, it is important to build a feature library that can be easily modified. In this paper, the implementation of Semantic Wiki for the development of the feature library is proposed.

Authors:

• Hendry Muljadi
• Hideaki Takeda
• Koichi Ando

Keywords:

• Manufacturing feature
• feature library
• feature ontology
• process planning
• Wiki
• MediaWiki
• Semantic Wiki.

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