Machining Operations are formalized as transitions between feature generation states. Tolerance features and geometric attributes define the terminal, or goal, state that must be obtained through application of the operations. Postconditions drive the tool and process parameter selection during the instanciation of an operation. Finally, these selections are used to generate the preconditions that must be satisfied prior to application of the operation. An operation is defined as the unit process that must be executed within a real-time control environment.
Operation planning includes tool selection, machining parameter selection, and tool path generation.
U. C. Berkeley's Integrated Manufacturing Lab represents one of the academic branches of the program, and our first step in participation in TEAM is the fabrication of the TEAM standard high precision part on our open-architecture machine tool controller. This page showcases the design of a non-circular part that has an equal width in all directions. More specifically, the cell's main function is to use robotic grippers to manipulate the sliders between several different platforms.