这篇文章将说明在开发集成产品设计、工艺规划和设施设计的新方法方面持续努力的结果。与开发此类环境相关的方法包括几何和参数化设计、成组技术以及基于变型和模板的工艺规划和设施设计。

The article will illustrate the results of an on-going effort in developing new methods for integrated product design, process planning and facility design. The methodologies associated with developing such an environment are geometric and parametric design, group technology and variant and template-based process planning and facility design.