A system for information management in simulation of manufacturing processes

  • Authors:

  • H. Johansson;P. Åström;K. Orsborn

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden;Department of Mechanical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden;Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • ICECT'03 Proceedings of the third international conference on Engineering computational technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A system has been developed to manage information associated with simulation of manufacturing processes, such as mesh information, boundary conditions and process parameters. The goal is to enable information sharing and exchange to make it possible to simulate a whole chain of manufacturing processes, and thereby predict how a modification in one manufacturing process affects the final characteristics of the product. The system has been used to predict successful simulation of a cutting process using mesh information and process parameters.An extensible and object-oriented database management system is embedded in the system to manage simulation information based on a conceptual EXPRESS schema. Amos II is a lightweight main-memory database management system that can be embedded within other applications and that incorporates an extensible and object-oriented query language. The system allows import and export of information from different simulation tools. Uniform storage using database technology enables information manipulation independently of any specific simulation tool.