Recently, features have been identified in the engineering
community as meaningful semantic entities enabling humans to
reason about products and processes. From the designer's point of view,
features are functional primitives, which serve as the basis
for product representations, improving the quality of the design and
the link of life cycle activities, such as process planning and
manufacturing. Over the past years, feature-based CAD systems have
reached a significant impact in industry, having the potential to
improve and speed up the design process, to reduce the cost and to
shorten the time-to-market.
Currently, three different types of organizations are working in the
area of feature modeling: universities and research institutes,
CAD/CAM suppliers and industrial users (Figure 1). The
universities and research institutes are providing
theoretical knowledge and experience in application-oriented research
and prototype development. System developers are specialized
on the commercial software development for CAD/CAM, and the
industrial users have a broad technical and technological
know-how in different application areas.
In such a situation where each type of organization has its specific
advantages it is of crucial importance to bring these three groups
together. The aim of FEMEX is to provide such a forum for discussion
and cooperation.
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