Similarity of Single Manufacturing Processes and their Main Process-analogues
Widely used at present the design of manufacturing processes based on the process-analogues has some limits, sharply reducing its effectiveness. The required methods of numerical evaluation of possible adjustments of process-analogue are absent; therefore the paper proposes using estimates of technological similarity for quantitative evaluation of the expected adjustments of process-analogue. Methodological approach to the preliminary assessment while its transformation to a single manufacturing process; and the parameters of manufacturing process-analogues providing the specified level of adjustment are given. The research results may be used to improve the methodology of manufacturing process design and its information support.