Large to medium Corporations that embrace the 3DEXP Platform can proliferate the value to their organization by maintaining the Digital Continuity from Engineering to Manufacturing and within the individual domains as well. In this case the Process Plan authored for an assembly or a product can contain numerous manufacturing processes one of which can be Machining. The process planners can plan their capable resources for the fabrication and assign relevant resources during planning which can be helpful for resource assignments, utilization, costing and resources down times for maintenance studies. The same resources and its container ( the Manufacturing Cell) can be enriched by the NC Programmer by delivering NC process, cycle times, documentations and NC Programs etc that can be publish back into Process Planning container.