Abstract
It has become popular to obtain technical information on the manufacturing field from the distributed Web sites and engineers are using them for operation planning and trouble recovery based in the process of Q&A using search engines. This paper takes an example for arc welding and discusses an effective method by linking them to organize a virtually integrated information base on the Internet. For the purpose, an arc welding case data format is proposed as an ordered set of technical data. It is derived from the WPS/PQR (Welding Procedure Specification and Procedure Qualification Record), which are widely used for the certification. The proposed formulation is examined by typical inquiry examples and evaluated feasible utilizing UML, XML and other related Web service technologies.
