Title: Combining an ontology representation with rule-based reasoning for the process planning of bulk silicon micro-manufacturing

Authors: Pingyu Jiang, Zheng Liu

Addresses: National Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, China. ' CAD/CAM Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, China

Abstract: Based on feature modelling technology, a method to automatically generate the manufacturing process plan from a 3D model of micro-device is presented to support the top-down design flow. First, by the fabrication-oriented features mapping technology, the process model is constructed to benefit the follow-up reasoning procedure. Second, in accordance with the ontological representing mode, the knowledge in bulk silicon micro-manufacturing is hierarchically organised to make a basis for the definition of the reasoning rules, construction of the knowledge templates and generation of the initial facts. Finally, the micro-manufacturing process planning result is obtained through the rule-based reasoning approach.

Keywords: feature-based modelling; process reasoning; ontology; expert systems; top-down design; rule-based reasoning; process planning; bulk silicon micromanufacturing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIMS.2008.021198

International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services, 2008 Vol.1 No.3, pp.262 - 277

Published online: 09 Nov 2008 *

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