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
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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 pro...

Table of Contents:

• I. Geometric modelling and computer-aided design
• II. CAD data exhange and CAD standards
• III. Computer-aided process planning and manufacturing
• IV. Feature technology
• V. Feature recognition
• VI. Feature interactions
• VII. Integrated feature technology
• VIII. CNC machine tools
• IX. Program CNCs
• X. Integration of CAD/CAPP/CAM/CNC
• XI. Integration based on step standards
• XII. Function block-enabled integration
• XIII. Development of an integrated, adaptable CNC system
• XIV. Integrating CAD/CAPP/CAM/CNC with inspections
• XV. Internet-based integration
• XVI. From CAD/CAPP/CAM/CNC to PDM, PLM and beyond
• XVII. Key enabling technologies.