Abstract: A method for generating process chains for product manufacturing is provided. Accordance to this method, all available data pertaining to the component to be manufactured is collected and the component to be manufactured is subdivided into component elements which can be manufactured independently of one another. The method further includes collecting all possible core technologies for the individual process blocks, where the core technologies are generating all possible manufacturing process chains by combining all core technologies of one process block with the core technologies of the other process blocks, and reducing all possible manufacturing process chains to a subset of possible manufacturing process chains. This reduction is based upon geometric and/or technological boundary conditions. The method includes ascertains data pertaining to per-unit costs for the component to be manufactured, .

Abstract: A method for generating process chains for product manufacturing is provided. In accordance with the method, all available data pertaining to the component to be manufactured is collected and the component to be manufactured is subdivided into component elements which can be manufactured independently of one another. On the basis of this subdivision, process blocks for manufacturing the component elements are defined. The method further includes collecting all possible core technologies for the individual process blocks, where the core technologies are those manufacturing processes and machining processes through which alternative manufacturing processes and machining processes differ from one another. The method includes generating all possible manufacturing process chains by combining all core technologies of one process block with the core technologies of the other process blocks, and reducing all possible manufacturing process chains to a subset of possible manufacturing process chains.