Representation of Human Intent in Product Models Laszl6 Horvath Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Banki Donat Polytechnic Nepszinhaz u. 8., Budapest H-1081, Hungary, phone: (36-1)-313- 8657, fax: (36-1)-333-6761, e-mail: lhorvath@:zeus.banki.hu ImreJ Rudas Department of Information Technology, Banki Donat Polytechnic Nepszinhaz u. 8, Budapest H-1081 Hungary, phone: (36-1)-333- 4513,fax: (36-1)-333-9183, e-mail: rudas@:zeus.banki.hu Abstract Engineering design and planning have beeome globalized aetivities in the industry. As a result, transferring produet models between CAD/CAM systems is emphasized in these days. An engineer needs information about intention of the engineer who has ereated the model at a remote workstation. Present day geometrie and form feature models of meehanical parts offer only restrieted deseription of human intent. There are efforts to improve this eharaeteristie of shape models. Authors propose in this paper a methodology for attaehing information and knowledge to geometrie and form feature models for improving eommunication between produet designer and produetion engineer. The paper is organized as folIows. First, produet modeling and produetion planning proeedures are analyzed for the needs for design intent information to be transferred between produet designers and manufaeturing engineers. Next, produet © The original version of this chapter was revised: The copyright line was incorrect. This has been corrected. The Erratum to this chapter is available at DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35390-6_58 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing L. M. Camarinha-Matos et al. (eds.), Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing 1998