... bottlenecks in building integrated design -manufacturing systems is the incompre-hension of the language of Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) systems by the Computer-AidedDesign (CAD) systems. ... feature interactions in design-for -manufacturing analysis, Trans. ASME, 117, 2, 1995.Geiger, T. S. and Dilts, D. M., Automated design-to-cost: integrating costing into the design decision, ... avenues fordetermining the best possible machining strategy, including the following [Levin and Dutta, 1992].• Sharing of machining parameters — the sequence in which machinable features...