Application of the CBR method for adding the process of cutting tools and parameters selection

The paper presents a method, basing on engineering knowledge and experience, designated to aid the selection of tools and machining parameters for the processes of turning. In this method, the informatics system is built basing on a Case Based Reasoning (CBR) method. This is a method of problems solving based on experience. It consists in finding analogies between the currently being solved task, and earlier realized tasks that have been stored in the database of the CBR system. The article presents the structure of the developed software, as well as the functioning of the CBR method. It also presents the possibility of integrating the developed method with the CAM module of the SIEMENS PLM NX program.