Requirements Analysis: Process Plan Specification - Workstation Level

Published

June 1, 1998

Author(s)

Kimberley Ellis, Albert T. Jones, Yung-Tsun Lee

Abstract

The Computer-Aided Manufacturing Engineering (CAME) program is developing a number of integrated software toolkits for design, manufacturing engineering, and production operations. One of these toolkits is the Manufacturing Engineering ToolKit (METK). The goals of the METK project are 1) to develop generic interface specifications, data structures, information models, and data validation methodology for manufacturing engineering software; and, 2) to demonstrate an integrated toolkit using commercial, off-the-shelf software applications. An initial prototype for the METK was developed in order to conduct a requirements analysis for the various interfaces. That prototype contained software applications to implement the following functions: product data management, workflow management, computer-aided design, generative process planning, and Numerical Control (NC) validation. The concept of a process plan was used to integrate the process planning and NC validation applications. This document describes the results of the requirements analysis for the process plan specification for a workstation containing a single machine tool and its operator. It will provide a scope and domain for the specification, a review of the related literature and standards, units of functionality, and the definition of required application objects.

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 6172

Report Number

6172

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

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NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.6172

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Keywords

manufacturing, numerical control programs, process planning, simulation, system integration

Citation

Ellis, K. , Jones, A. and Lee, Y. (1998), Requirements Analysis: Process Plan Specification - Workstation Level, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.6172, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821232 (Accessed May 13, 2026)

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