P3: A manufacturing planner that reasons about cost-effective plans to achieve positional tolerance specifications

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-86

  Hayes, C C ^a   Sun, H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated planning; CAD CAM integration; Concurrent engineering; Manufacturability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MACHINING; PLANNING; SPECIFICATIONS;

BATCH PLANNING; MANUFACTURING EVALUATION AGENT; MANUFACTURING PLANNER; POSITIONAL TOLERANCE PROCESS PLANNER;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0029771316     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0965-9978(95)00087-9     Document Type: Article

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