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A comprehensive and generic machine tools data model

A comprehensive and generic machine tools data model The data model of machine tools plays a key role to share and manage machine tools information among modern manufacturing systems and has been considered as a fundamental basis for achieving various manufacturing activities such as process planning, machining simulation and production scheduling. Although research into modelling machine tools has been done, these modelling approaches are either machine vendor specific, or limited and incomplete in their scope to represent machine tools. Therefore, a comprehensive and generic machine tools data model (CGMTDM) is proposed in this paper. The proposed data model is constructed based on the oriented-object EXPRESS language, which not only includes the information of mechanical elements, but the information of the electro-mechanical and electronic elements. The case study is used to demonstrate the proposed data model at the end. It has been concluded that CGMTDM can consistently, completely and flexibly represent the information of machine tools. [Received 14 April 2016; Revised 4 September 2016; Accepted 8 September 2016] Keywords: machine tools; comprehensive and generic data model; EXPRESS language; STEP-NC. Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Zhang, Y., Guo, G., Zhang, Y. and Li, Y. (2017) `A comprehensive and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Manufacturing Research Inderscience Publishers

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Inderscience Publishers
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Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
ISSN
1750-0591
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1750-0605
DOI
10.1504/IJMR.2017.083649
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Abstract

The data model of machine tools plays a key role to share and manage machine tools information among modern manufacturing systems and has been considered as a fundamental basis for achieving various manufacturing activities such as process planning, machining simulation and production scheduling. Although research into modelling machine tools has been done, these modelling approaches are either machine vendor specific, or limited and incomplete in their scope to represent machine tools. Therefore, a comprehensive and generic machine tools data model (CGMTDM) is proposed in this paper. The proposed data model is constructed based on the oriented-object EXPRESS language, which not only includes the information of mechanical elements, but the information of the electro-mechanical and electronic elements. The case study is used to demonstrate the proposed data model at the end. It has been concluded that CGMTDM can consistently, completely and flexibly represent the information of machine tools. [Received 14 April 2016; Revised 4 September 2016; Accepted 8 September 2016] Keywords: machine tools; comprehensive and generic data model; EXPRESS language; STEP-NC. Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Zhang, Y., Guo, G., Zhang, Y. and Li, Y. (2017) `A comprehensive and

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International Journal of Manufacturing Research – Inderscience Publishers

Published: Jan 1, 2017

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