Greedy tool heuristic approach to rough milling of complex shaped pockets

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 953-963

  Joneja, Ajay ^a   Weifeng, Yuen ^a   Lee, Yuan Shin ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MILLING (MACHINING); MOTION PLANNING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

PRISMATIC PROFILES; ROUGH MILLINGS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0041918968     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170309342347     Document Type: Article

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