After CAD: Automatic design: dream or reality?

Author

Pruvot, François C.

Author_Institution

Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1993

fDate

24-27 May 1993

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

169

Abstract

In mechanical design, current CAD systems can only perform two kinds of tasks: calculation of the performance of already designed elements, and final drafting of assembly and detail drawings prior to manufacturing and filing. The creative tasks remain the exclusive domain of man. A new concept, called synthetic intelligence, seems to be able to do creative tasks. An example is given. The first commercially available truly generative process planner (KRONOS) does perform such work. KRONOS, composed of a part editor, a technological preprocessor, a logic module, and a technological module, is described

Keywords

CAD/CAM; computer aided production planning; intelligent design assistants; mechanical engineering computing; Automatic design; CAD systems; CAPP; KRONOS; assembly; creative tasks; detail drawings; drafting; filing; generative process planner; logic module; manufacturing; mechanical design; part editor; performance; synthetic intelligence; technological module; technological preprocessor; Artificial intelligence; Assembly; Design automation; Design engineering; Engineering drawings; Manufacturing; Process design; Process planning; Protocols; Stress;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

CompEuro '93. 'Computers in Design, Manufacturing, and Production', Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Pris-Evry

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4030-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPEUR.1993.289808

Filename

289808