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Howard T. Moncarz, Steve Osella, B Brochardt, Ralph C. Veale
The main purpose of this manual is to explain how to operate the Inspection Workstation (IWS) of the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) at the
This document describes the implementation specifics of the Inspection Workstation Controller (WSC) program. This program runs under the control of the ECS
This paper discusses the graphics subsystem of the Vertical Workstation (VWS) of the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) at the National Bureau of
The VWS2 B-rep Parser is a computer program written in LISP that takes a file giving the boundary representation of a part as input and produces a file giving a
This paper discusses the vws_cadm user interface for the Vertical Workstation (VWS) of the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) at the National
This paper describes the part design protocol (method of describing the geometry of a part), the part design editor, and the geometry library used in the
This paper identifies the process through which the Topology and Geometry of product data defined in the AMRF (Automated Manufacturing Research Facility) Part
This paper discusses the Data Execution module of the Vertical Workstation (VWS) of the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) at the National Bureau
The purpose of this manual is to provide instructions to train an operator to run Version 1.3 of the Integrated Manufacturing Data Administration System (IMDAS)
Section I serves as an introduction to the concept of common memory. It identifies the purpose of the accompanying software collection, and lists the personal
The purpose of this paper is to show a translation scheme from control flow in the C programming language to the Grafcet language. Grafcet is a graphical
Siefried Rybczynski, Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Evan K. Wallace, M Strawbridge, Donald E. Libes, C Young
This document describes the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) factory network architecture as implemented 1985
This document describes the implementation specifics of the Inspection Robot Controller (IRC) program. This program runs under the control of the ECS program
This document describes the implementation specifics of the surface roughness instrument (SRI) controller program. The SRI is part of the inspection workstation
This manual is one in a series of operations manuals written to instruct a novice in the operation of one of the systems in the Automated Manufacturing Research
Bentley, Weide and Yao have proposed an expected 0(N) cell technique for computing Voronoi diagrams in two dimensions that does not generalize readily to three
C G. Culver, C. F. Scribner, R D. Marshall, Felix Y. Yokel, John L. Gross, Charles W. Yancey, E. M. Hendrickson
Results from an investigation to determine the cause of the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza building on April 23, 1987 are presented. The building was being
This workshop, A National Forum on the Future of Automated Materials Processing in U.S. Industry--The Roles of Process Models, Artificial Intelligence and
Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Neil Christopher, Shaw C. Feng, James E. Fowler, Simon P. Frechette, Albert T. Jones, Kevin K. Jurrens, Charles R. McLean, Mike Pratt, Harry A. Scott, M. K. Senehi, Ram D. Sriram, Evan K. Wallace
This report describes the activities and information flows inherent in the product realization process for discrete electro-mechanical parts and products. That