For the past three decades, computer-aided process planning (CAPP) has attracted a large
amount of research interest. A huge volume of literature has been published on this subject …

Computer-aided process planning (CAPP) is the application of the computer to assist
process planners in the planning functions. It is considered as the key technology for …

Integration of process planning and scheduling (IPPS) is an important research issue to
achieve manufacturing planning optimisation. In both process planning and scheduling, vast …

In recent years, collaborative research between academia and industry has intensified in
finding a successful approach to take the information from a computer generated drawings …

Mass customized production brings great uncertainty to the computer-aided process
planning (CAPP). Current CAPP methods based on heuristic optimization assume in …

Dynamics of metro coach is complex with frequent acceleration, braking, sharp turns and
gradients. Due to sharp turns and twists in track, metro coaches are more prone to the …

Computer-aided process planning (CAPP) is an important interface between computer-
aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) in the computer integrated …

The machining process is the act of preparing the detailed operating instructions for
changing an engineering design into an end product, which involves the removal of material …

Operation sequencing is one of the crucial tasks in process planning. However, it is an
intractable process to identify an optimized operation sequence with minimal machining cost …

Operation sequencing in CAPP aims at determining the optimal order of machining
operations with minimal machining cost and satisfying all the precedence constraints. The …