Service-Oriented Integration Environment for CAD/CAM Systems

Issue title: Object-Oriented Manufacturing Systems

Guest editors: Douglas H. NorrieGuest Editor

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Magleby, Spencer P.^{; *} | Gunn, Kenneth B. | Sorensen, Carl D.

Affiliations: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602

Correspondence: [*] Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed.

Abstract: The nature of product modeling systems and related application programs for design and manufacture makes it difficult to integrate them into a consistent and dynamic environment. This has been especially true for rule-based application programs. Through the use of standardized functional interfaces and UNIX interprocess communication, an environment has been developed that allows modelers and application programs to behave like objects within the integration environment. Each modeler and application (objects in the system) runs as a separate process. Each object has specific methods associated with it and also incorporates the concepts of data hiding and encapsulation. The object-oriented approach creates an environment that is service oriented vs. the traditional data-oriented approach. The software that creates and controls this environment is called the Information Services Exchange (ISX). ISX is currently being used to implement a project sponsored by Computer Aided Manufacturing—International (CAM-I) aimed at integrating a wide range of product development software. The approach developed within ISX could have a significant effect on design of diverse and large-scale product development systems.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-1993-1207

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 157-166, 1993