• Hemanth Gowda M
• Kiran B
• Jerome Prajith Royan
• Humaid Khalifa
• Pramod Kumar S K

Process Planning is one of the key steps involved in production of any part in a manufacturing plant and also a key factor for achieving easiness in production processes. The process planning aides the engineers and workers in understanding sequence of operations to be performed thereby reducing the time production time. The past research works performed on process planning mainly concerned on development of variant approach and do not focus on generative computer-aided process planning (CAPP). Optimization of process planning based on time is the key factor in reducing the time taken for process planning. In this paper, optimization of process planning is done by considering machining time as the key variable. Firefly approach is developed for the optimization process and the results are compared with conventional methods of process planning

Process Planning, Algorithm, Firefly algorithm, Optimization.

"A Generative Computer-Aided Process Planning for Mill Parts by Firefly Approach", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.523-526, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBZ06081.pdf

"A Generative Computer-Aided Process Planning for Mill Parts by Firefly Approach", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp523-526, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBZ06081.pdf