Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) Manufacturing Capacity Planning by Computers

There are three tasks of manufacturing production planning: process planning, determining cutting conditions, and setting the time standards. To make the proper sequence the operations are documented on a form known as the route sheet. The use of computers for process planning is called as Computer Aided Process Planning or CAPP. There are two approaches for computer aided planning process: retrieval type CAPP systems and generative CAPP systems.