CAPP USING NATURAL-LANGUAGE PART DESCRIPTIONS

This paper discusses the use of natural language part descriptions as a basis for computer-aided process planning for assembly operations. It shows how a process plan can be constructed using rules which operate on natural language descriptions of parts. The paper presents a comprehensive framework for the development of process planning rules whose premises are based on verbal descriptions of parts. This is followed by a description of an application whose objective was to prepare process plans to support cost estimating at a very early stage in the design of circuit boards.