1. PROCESS PLANNING• Process planning is the selection of operation and parameters required to manufacture a part. • A process plan is a list of operations required to manufacture a part. • This technique is quite inexact, and never perfect. • Some strategies that can be used to do process planning are, - Most significant feature first • In general a process plan is put together in pieces, but at all times we will be trying to convert features on the design to operations on the process plan. • Many of the parameters that effect the process planning decisions are related to a part, and to a process being considered. 
1.1 TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN FEATURES1.2 MOST SIGNIFICANT FEATURE FIRST1.3 DATABASE METHODS1.4 MANUFACTURING VOLUMES1.5 STANDARD PARTS1.6 PRACTICE PROBLEMS1.7 REFERENCES |