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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2003
Michael Evans Graham, Slingerlands, NY (US);
Prashant Madhukar Kulkarni, Schenectady, NY (US);
John Dennis Jackson, Wyoming, OH (US);
Michael Evans Graham, Slingerlands, NY (US);
Prashant Madhukar Kulkarni, Schenectady, NY (US);
John Dennis Jackson, Wyoming, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for processing one or more manufactured parts is provided. The method includes generating a number of tool paths corresponding to a feature to be added to the one or more manufactured parts. Each of the tool paths has an effect on a respective one of the representative manufactured parts. The method further includes clustering the tool paths into a number of clusters based on the respective effect and a tolerance of the feature being added to the representative manufactured part and processing a manufactured part using one of the tool paths, which corresponds to a respective subpopulation in which the manufactured part lies.