🚀 go-pugleaf

	This question would be most appropriate for the proposed
   newsgroup comp.ai.planning (which I do hereby vote for), but in the 
   meantime here it is:

	I'm working on my dissertation in the area of CAPP and came 
   across a reference for two new CAPP books in the May issue of 
   "Manufacturing Engineering" and was wondering if anyone could 
   give me some hints on their content (theoretical, manager oriented,
   manufacturing engineering or AI oriented, survey of current
   existing systems, etc.)

	1)  "Computer-Automated Process Planning for World-Class
     Manufacturing", by James A. Nolen (I believe), Marcel Dekker,
     Inc. 456 pages, New York, 1989. 

	2)  "CAPP: From Design to Production" published by SME in
     1988 (a collection of 24 articles and technical papers), Edited
     by Joseph Tulkoff. 

		Thanks for any light you can shed on this books.

							- Joe Miller
						Michigan State University
						Dept. of Computer Science
						miller@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu

P.S. If desired, I can post a summary of any hints I receive in 2 weeks.  Of
course posting directly to the net is also welcome (maybe it will help
the cause of creating comp.ai.planning by showing interest in this
related subject area.)