The concept of smart manufacturing has become an important issue in the manufacturing
industry since the start of the twenty-first century in terms of time and production cost. In …

Feature is an essential concept during design and manufacturing. It has universal characters
for specific definitions of interest. Feature Recognition (FR) is a technique to identify and …

Boundary representation (B-rep) models are the standard way 3D shapes are described in
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications. They combine lightweight parametric curves …

In computer-aided design (CAD) and process planning (CAPP), feature recognition is an
essential task which identifies the feature type of a 3D model for computer-aided …

This paper presents a new hybrid (graph+ rule based) approach for recognizing the
interacting features from B-Rep CAD models of prismatic machined parts. The developed …

The present paper surveys the application of soft computing (SC) techniques in engineering
design. Within this context, fuzzy logic (FL), genetic algorithms (GA) and artificial neural …

In Industrie 4.0, machines are expected to become autonomous, self-aware and self-
correcting. One important step in the area of manufacturing is feature recognition that aims to …

Manufacturing feature recognition is a critical issue in intelligent manufacturing, which can
extract valuable geometric information from solid models for humans not to be subservient to …

We report on the development of an intelligent system for recognizing prismatic part
machining features from CAD models using an artificial neural network. A unique 12-node …

For seamless automation, computer-aided design and manufacturing activities have to be
linked by computer-aided process planning (CAPP). An important subtask in CAPP is setup …