A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING, MANAGING AND DISSEMINATING MANUFACTURING KNOWLEDGE

摘要

A independent method for configuring and extracting detailed manufacturing knowledge for fabricating an object, tool or part and storing the data to a data file or data structure. The method includes extracting design criteria from a data file (210) and parsing design criteria into elemental manufacturing building modules independent of the data file (215) and storin g the captured criteria data file (225). Additional manufacturing knowledge is then inputted into the meta-data file not contained in the data file by extracting manufacturing knowledge from a database housing manufacturing knowledge and incorporating this knowledge into data file which is capable o f being translated to Numerical Control machine language.