Application of the CBR method for adding the technological process designing

The manufacturing process is a very important step in the process of new products creating. The market trends cause that the process must be very flexible to facilitate fast and cost-effective adaptation to changing market conditions. Commonly used CNC machine tools, grouped in flexible production systems significantly facilitate fast production adjusting to these dynamic changes. The programs for CNC machine tools could be easily modified or generated in the CAM class programs. It remains, however, the technological process, which should be planned and continuously optimized with respect to new details being produced. In this paper is proposed the method basing on the engineering knowledge and experience for adding the process of production preparation. The method, developed by authors, is based on the CBR (Case Based Reasoning) technique. CBR is a method of problems solving. It bases on seeking an analogy (similarity) between the task currently being solved, and the earlier tasks that had already been solved. The article presents an algorithm and formalized description of the developed method.