Screen-Sharing Technology for Cooperative CAPP System in a Networked Manufacturing Environment

Zhaomin Xu, Ming Cai, Lanfen Lin, Jinxiang Dong

Abstract: Recently, many researchers have been concentrating on the development of cooperative CAPP systems. How to realize cooperative planning among heterogeneous CAPP systems in a networked manufacturing environment is a challenging issue. In this paper we adopt screen-sharing technology to solve this problem. We first propose an idea for cooperative process planning. Then we discuss potential solutions to the problems of screen-sharing technology, including cooperative control command management and shared data processing. An example of the networked manufacturing oriented cooperative CAPP system is briefly introduced at the end of this paper.