Method and system for capturing, managing and disseminating manufacturing knowledge

A memory for storing data for access by an application program executable on a data processing system, comprising:

• a data structure for configuring manufacturing knowledge and expertise in designing and fabricating an object for manufacture, the data structure stored in said memory, said data structure including information resident in a database used by said application program and including:
• a part level strategy section, the part level strategy section defines general part level attributes and requirements for manufacturing an object;
• a numerical control setup section, wherein the numerical control setup section defines object fabrication activities for the object set up on a numerical control machine;
• a quality assurance section, wherein the quality assurance section defines numerical control machine setup;
• a post operation section, wherein the post operation section defines non-machine tolling functions for manufacturing the object;
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• a manual operation section, wherein the manual operation section defines attributes of non-Numerical Control machine driven operations.