Ssemakula, M.E.Nau, D.S.Rangachar, R.M.Yang, Q.Automated Process Planning forms an important link in CIM Systems. Process Sequencing is one of the most important phases of process planning and is influenced by factors such as part geometry, available manufacturing resources and generated cutting forces. This paper describes a new AI based approach to optimizing this function using heuristic search techniques.en-USTechnical Report