Integrated Automated Process Planning System

Objective

Objectives and content

This proposal is based on the user requirements having been obtained on consensus during the pilot phase of the AIT Initiative (EP7704). This initiative aims to push forward the competitiveness of European Industry in Design and Manufacturing processes in key industrial sectors through the appropriate integration of Information Technology.

Process planning has been identified by the AIT Pilot phase to be a complex, important domain of the manufacturing engineering business process. Hence the application of up-to-date computer support has the potential to provide substantial improvement. resulting in better quality process plans with less effort of resources and in 3 shorter time.

The development and validation of an integrated, automated process planning system will be the key 10 tap this source of rationalisation. Important elements to be covered by this activities are:

- the full integration with adjacent systems like Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP),
- the capabiliy to learn by applying achieved results to similar new tasks, - the extensive utilisation of the services of the AIT Information Technology Reference Model (1TRM).

Particularly the complementing AIT-activities towards feature-based product modelling (with the product definition accessable in STEP format) can only be fully exploited, when equivalent procedures are applied for transforming these product data into the manufacturing model. describing the suitable processes and other more detailed information of their performance. The close co-ordination of these two related fields of activities (beyond the regular AIT co-ordination) will be safeguarded through the joint project co-ordinator AEG. Due to the more IT-dominated nature of the feature-based modelling, that proposal will be submitted against the appropriate task (liM 8.2) of the ESPRIT workprogramme.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › manufacturing engineering

Programme(s)

• FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0101 - Incorporation of new technologies into production systems

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft

Address

1,theodor-stern-kai 1
60596 Frankfurt-am-main
Germany

Participants (13)

Alenia Aerospazio Un'Azienda Finmeccanica SpA

Italy

Address

Corso Marche 41
10146 Torino

British Aerospace Aerostructures Ltd

United Kingdom

Address

Filton House Filton
BS99 7AR Bristol

CN Industries Tell

France

Address

254,rue Francis De Pressensé
69625 Villeurbanne

Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA

Spain

Address

S/n,avenida Garcia Morato
41011 Sevilla

Danobat S.Coop. Ltda

Spain

Address

21,arriaga Kalea
20870 Elgoibar

Debis Systemhaus Engineering GmbH

Germany

Address

13,erich-herion-strasse
70736 Fellbach

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg

Germany

Address

7-9,egerlandstraùe
91058 Erlangen

GIE PSA Peugeot Citroën

France

Address

75,route De Gisy
78140 Vélizy Villacoublay

Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée

France

Address

63175 Aubière

Lucas Applied Technology Ltd

United Kingdom

Address

Stratford Road
B90 3JJ Solihull

PS Group BV

Netherlands

Address

2,radioweg
1324 KW Almere Stad

Pafec Ltd

United Kingdom

Address

Strelley Hall Main Street
NG8 6PE Nottingham

University of Nottingham

United Kingdom

Address

University Park
NG7 2RD Nottingham