Development of a Wiki-based Feature Library for a Process Planning System

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 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 is easy to modify. In this paper, a Wiki-based feature library is proposed.

Authors:

• Hendry Muljadi
• Hideaki Takeda
• Koichi Ando

Keywords:

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

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