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Automated synthesis of manufacturing process plans has been attempted through many methodologies for a wide range of manufacturing problems. In some cases, such as the manufacture of machined parts, these attempts have not been fully successful: to date, it has not been possible to develop purely generative systems to synthesize complete realistic plans for a wide range of realistic machined parts. In this paper we propose a new approach to process planning for machined parts, which integrates case-based reasoning and generative components.