Development of an Internet-enabled interactive fixture design system

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 945-957

  Mervyn, Fathianathan ^a   Senthil Kumar, A ^a   Bok, S H ^a   Nee, A Y C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fixture design; Internet based manufacturing; XML schema

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; XML;

FIXTURE DESIGN;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0037884710     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(03)00009-5     Document Type: Article

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