SIMULTANEOUS ENGINEERING AUTOMATION

A NEW GENERATION OF ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION DESIGNTOOLS ARE NOW EMERGING AS A RESULT OF THE PIONEERING WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE IN OBJECTORIENTED PROGRAMMING TECHNOLOGY. UNLIKE CONVENTIONAL PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE APPROACHES, THE OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING APPROACH ALLOWS DATA STRUCTURES AND PROCEDURES TO BE DEFINED FOR GENERIC CLASSES OF OBJECTS. SYSTEM PERFORMANCE, RNA, AND COST DATA ASWELL AS DESIGN RULES, GOVERNMENT STANDARDS, MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING DATA WILL BE STORED IN RELATIONAL DATABASES FOR EASY ACCESS THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE STRUCTUREID QUERY LANGUAGE (SQL) SUPPORT SYSTEM. THE SQL COMMANDS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE UNDERLYING PROCESSING LANGUAGE (LISP) AUTOMATICALLY. WITH THIS POWERFUL FACILITY, T:HE CONCEPT MODELLER CAN UPDATE OR EXTRACT RNA INFORMATION FROM DATABASES RESIDING IRI DIFFERENT MACHINES USING THB STANDARD SQL LANGUAGE UNDERSTOOD BY RELATIONAL DATABASIE PRODUCTS, AND ENTER THIS NEW DATA INTO SOFTWARE PRODUCTION PROGRAMS SUCH AS TIGER, PREDICTOR, ETC. AND RUN THESE PROGRAMS. AMA WILL EVALUATE EXISTING RNA AND COST MODELS FOR POTENTIAL INCLUSION IN THE COMBINED SYSTEM DATABASE.