Development of a STEP-NC-compliant feature-based inspection framework for prismatic parts

In today's manufacturing world there is a continuous effort to totally integrate quality control with design and manufacturing. In this context inspection and measurement of parts during manufacturing is important for process control in order to produce quality finish products. This thesis reports research into the integration of feature-based inspection of discrete components in design, manufacturing and quality cycles. Though this is recognised, the state-of-the-art in inspection of components is still considered as a separate island of automation with no formal integration of standards and specifications. [Continues.]