Abstract
To support a cutting tool management system in distributed manufacturing industries, there must be a cutting tool database, which can provide information necessary for that purpose. This paper deals with the methodology to construct a cutting tool database and to manage of cutting tool information for distributed cutting tool management system using network. In the past study, by introducing STEP technology and using EXPRESS and EXPRESS-G, we designed an information model of cutting tools, thereby representing models of such basic tool database as parts structure, assembly, nominal size and real size. We proposed an EXPRESS early binding XML for capturing the nature of tool data model, and for generation the serialization format of an EXPRESS data model, and evaluating its usefulness.
