Development of a Manufacturing Supporting System Based on Searching of Manufacturing Case Image

Abstract

We have developed an XML schema of manufacturing case data and visualizing methods of manufacturing knowledge. The manufacturing case data is composed of material specifications, processing conditions, machine specifications and evaluation results, which are basically represented in text to share and to compare the associated knowledge. The data is including multimedia data partly, but it is difficult to handle directly the visual data in XML for the purpose. In the paper, we proposed an image search method and examined its possibility through the experiments on the appearance images of laser cutting surface and beads of arc welding.