| Abstract: | This paper reports research into a novel machining, inspection and analysis facility directed towards a small manufacturing enterprise. A major feature of the facility is the ability to produce rapid manufacturing control through feedback data generated from the seamless integration of machining, inspection and production data analysis activities in order to influence the regeneration of NC part programs. The major contribution of the paper explores the implementation and evaluation of a prototype production data analysis facility that consists of four constituents: machine and inspection planning, production code generation, comparative tolerance analysis, and manufacturing data analysis, the execution of which is supported by the use of order and manufacturing information models. An integrated multifunctional prototype production data analysis software tool has been developed for a limited number of manufacturing features for 2½D prismatic components. This prototype software tool has been tested and is critically reviewed with future work. |
