Concurrent intelligent rapid prototyping system framework

Rapid prototyping technology enables rapid production of complex objects directly from a computer-aided design model without involving any tooling or conventional part programming. This has created a new set of problems associated with part design, process planning, support design and value engineering analysis of rapid prototyping parts. In the paper, a framework for resolving these problems is given, which use concurrent engineering, distributed blackboard, value engineering, knowledge-based and feature-based technologies