Integrating design and production planning with knowledge-based inspection planning system

Abstract EN

In this paper an intelligent environment to integrate design and inspection was introduced to bring inspection earlier to the design stage.

A hybrid knowledge-based approach integrating computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided inspection planning (CAIP) was developed, thereafter called computer-aided design and inspection planning (CADIP).

CADIP was adopted for automated dimensional inspection planning.

Critical functional features were screened based on certain attributes for part features for inspection planning application.

Testing the model resulted in minimizing the number of probing vectors associated with the most important features in the inspected prismatic part, significant reduction in inspection costs and release of human labor.

In totality, this tends to increase customer satisfaction as a final goal of the developed system.