... CAM-I, CAM-I’s Illustrated Glossary of Workpiece Form Features, Report R-80-PPP-02.1 (Revised), May1981.CAM-I, Feature Extraction and Process Planning Specific Study, Report R-86-GM/PP-01, ... bottlenecks in building integrated design- manufacturing systems is the incompre-hension of the language of Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) systems by the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems. The CAD ... development of a feature modeling system capable of performing product design optimization [Allada and Anand, 1995]. The implications of different types of features of a product model on product-life...