Abstract: A system is provided for part ordering, design, and manufacturing. A manufacturer computer system is provided which comprises a parametric design mechanism to specify geometries of the part with parameters, an intelligent geometry portion, a 3D solid modeling function, and one or more simulation components. The intelligent geometry portion determines machining cycles to manufacture the part. Part-related databases are provided, and order processing components are provided. Such part-related databases and order processing components may form part of one or both of an ERP and PLM computer system. An order processing template is provided to facilitate sales and order processing, tool planning, CA parametric modeling, computer simulation, and the generation of a factory machine program. The order processing template comprises financial and manufacturing engineering planning fields and technical fields. An order template interface, or a set of order template interfaces, is provided.

Abstract: A system is provided for creating specialty machine control programs for manufacturing a part. A CA (computer aided) computer system is provided. The CA system may comprise a computer aided design and computer aided manufacture (CAD/CAM) computer system. The CA computer system may further comprise a computer aided engineering (CAE) computer system. The CA computer system may further comprise a computer aided quality (CAQ) computer system. The CA computer system comprises a parametric design mechanism to specify geometries of the part with parameters. In addition, an intelligent geometry portion is provided to determine machining cycles to manufacture the part. A 3D solid modeling function is provided, and one or more simulation components are provided. A human-readable control program generator is provided to generate from the CA computer system a human-readable control program including instructions for a human to carry out.

Abstract: A part data entry system is provided. In that system, an order processing template is provided to facilitate sales and order processing, tool planning, CA (computer aided) (e.g., CAD/CAM) parametric modeling, computer simulation, and the generation of a factory machine program. The order processing template comprises financial and manufacturing engineering planning fields and technical fields. A part information population mechanism is provided to populate the order processing template with the part information. An order template population mechanism is provided to populate other ones of the financial and manufacturing planning fields and the technical fields that are not populated by the part information population mechanism. An order processing template interface, or a set of such interfaces, is provided to provide, for a given ordered part, from the order processing template, CA-specific information to a CA computer system before the CA computer system performs CAD modeling on the part.