Requirement oriented process planning and configuration

Flexible process planning is necessary in order to design a product on the basis of individual requirements. Existing methods provide good approaches to describe processes but the planning itself is hardly supported. Therefore, a process planning methodology was conceived which allows a requirement oriented process planning and configuration. New processes can be synthesised where necessary by linking required design activities to the product structure. By the same principle existing process modules can be easily selected from a database according to given customer requirements.