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This paper describes an ongoing research project, funded by the EC, Esprit program, aiming at developing a “workbench” for the computer-aided design of manufacturing systems. The system provides an user-friendly and powerful environment in which tools supporting the conception, design and evaluation of manufacturing systems will be integrated in a common framework. The workbench has its foundation on a descriptive method of the domain of manufacturing systems (based on the object-oriented methodology), enabling the description of all the aspects of a generic manufacturing system. The paper gives a general overview on the project: after a short introduction on the drawbacks of the current IT tools supporting the manufacturing system engineering process, the logical architecture of the software workbench is presented; then the expected benefits arising from the employment of the system are underlined.
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Garetti, M., Bartolotta, A., Corradi, E., Rabe, M., Raimondo, A. (1997). Design issues of an integrated software workbench supporting the manufacturing systems design process. In: Plonka, F., Olling, G. (eds) Computer Applications in Production and Engineering. CAPE 1997. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35291-6_29
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