Drawing Analogies by Systematic Spatial Inferencing for Manufactured Components

In this paper, we describe systematic ana-logical reasoning using a qualitative spatial model for manufactured components which incorporates both fea-tures and mathematical spatial relationships between features. Solving this problem will be of benefit to manufacturing planning. We will discuss the definition and formulation of these computations] inferencing tasks, as well as their properties. The utility of these computational inferences within the manufacturing domain is shown.