Abstract: The practicality and automation of CAPP are required urgently by the development of advanced manufacturing mode recently.This paper presents a multi strategy process planning approach,which integrates four schemes including index,table filling tools,generated and expert system.A multi strategy CAPP system AMCAPP based on this approach is developed and introduced,which can satisfy,to the utmost extent,the demand of both practicality by enterprises and automation in CAPP inference.