Standardisation focus on process planning and operations management for additive manufacturing

Abstract

The work presented in this paper has focused on process planning and operations management of Additive Manufacturing (AM) through the hereafter mentioned standards such as ISO 10303 and ISO 14649, ISO 15531, ISO/CD 18828 and Unified Manufacturing Resource Model (UMRM). We have combined these standards to integrate process implementations, manufacturing management and control and information flows. The objective of this work is to standardize manufacturing process for AM. Similarly, the UMRM is introduced to develop a unified manufacturing resource service platform, which can provide the required information regarding machine tools to automate the decision making in process planning and operations management.