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Development of STEP-NC Compliant Machine Tool Data Model

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Proceedings of the 35th International MATADOR Conference

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To implement STEP-NC based manufacturing, a STEP-NC compliant machine tool data model (STEP-NCMtDm) is developed by using EXPRESS modelling lanugage. It models sufficient machine tool data to ‘transfer’ STEP-NC machining task-level data to machine tool dependent method-level data. The objective and two main technological aspects of developing STEP-NCMtDM are discussed. The model architecture is analyzed. Machine tool data in STEP-NCMtDm are categorized into two groups: “static data” and “dynamic data”, to support further system development. A Web-enabled STEP-NCMtDm (a corresponding XML schema) is developed to support Web-based application. STEP-NCMtDm has been implemented to model a milling machine tool and represent its data in a STEP Part 21 file and an XML file to support STEP-NC based manufacturing.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand

    W. Z. Yang, X. Xu & S. Q. Xie

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  1. School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK

    Srichand Hinduja PhD

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, 10627, Taiwan ROC

    Kuang-Chao Fan PhD

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Yang, W.Z., Xu, X., Xie, S.Q. (2007). Development of STEP-NC Compliant Machine Tool Data Model. In: Hinduja, S., Fan, KC. (eds) Proceedings of the 35th International MATADOR Conference. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-988-0_8

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