Model Driven Manufacturing Process Design and Managing Quality

Besides decisions in design, decisions made in process planning determine the conditions for manufacturing the right quality. Hence systematic process planning is a key enabler for robust product realization from design through manufacturing. Current work methods for process planning and quality assurance lack efficient system integration. As a consequence companies spend unnecessary lot of non-value adding time on managing quality. This paper presents a novel model-based approach to integrate process planning and quality assurance. The presented model enables a more efficient and holistic way for managing quality from design to manufacturing. New possibilities to communicate process design intent and present important quality assurance information in a more structured and comprehensive way is also enabled. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.