Integrating advanced computer-aided design, manufacturing, and numerical control principles and implementations /

• Main Author: Xu, Xun, 1959-
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Industrial design > Data processing.; Geometrical models > Data processing.; CAD/CAM systems.; Computer-aided Design (CAD); CAD data exchange and CAD standards; Computer-aided process planning and manufacturing (CAPP/CAM); Agent-based technology; Artificial neural network methods; Computer numerical control (CNC); Integrated, adaptable CNC systems; Feature technology; Function block-enabled integration; Geometric modeling; Human-machine interface; Product Data Management (PDM); Integrated feature technology; Integration of CAD, CAPP, CAM, CNC; STEP standards; Key enabling technologies; Knowledge-based systems; Product Lifecycle Management (PLM); Web-based technologies
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xxiv, 397 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781599047164 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

This book presents basic principles of product modeling and manufacturing while featuring contemporary industrial case studies. A one-stop reference source for the latest international standards, and their implementations, this comprehensive title also expands beyond the traditional scope of the product development process to give a brief account on product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM).