Gentelligent Production - A New Era of Production Technology.

Process planning represents an important link between product design and product manufacturing. The quality and reliability of generated process plans, carried out in this early stage of production, affects the productivity of the whole production chain. The paper presents a novel concept for simulation based process planning for metal cutting processes supporting the planning quality and flexibility by using gentelligent technologies in terms of production. The ambition of the simulation based process planning is the verification of alternative process sequences using a technological manufacturing simulation, predicting technological quantities as well as geometrical quality indicators.