equipment designer comes to mind, but it is just a guess.

Two more to throw into the ring...

Coordinator: a robust setup planner that detects fixture-feature interactions;
This paper presents Coordinator, a robust, resource adaptive process planner for CNC machining centers that uses a blend of geometric and manufacturing information to detect a broad variety of manufacturing interactions and create setups plans. This system is designed to be used by expert users to reduce the time and effort required to produce good plans. One of Coordinator's contributions is the ability to detect fixture-feature interactions, interferences between manufacturing operations in which one operation destroys the clamping surfaces required by another;
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel4/5875/1...


An intelligent fuzzy set-up planner for manufacturability and fixturability evaluations;
Set-up planning, which is a macro-planning process in both process planning and fixture planning, plays a key role in achieving this integration. The requirements in both process planning and fixturing are considered, as a set-up plan is formulated in set-up planning. Through the consideration of these requirements, manufacturability evaluation can be performed and design elements that might cause problems in the machining and work-holding of a pan can be identified. In this paper, a practical and useful intelligent fuzzy set-up planner that is capable of performing manufacturability and fixturability evaluations is presented;
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a779889801~...
Fixturability and Setup Planning;
To ensure successful machining, each intermediate workpiece shape should be fixturable. This requires consideration of fixturing devices and formulating the conditions that are needed to insure proper fixturing. Setup planning involves determining the various setups in which the part will be machined. While advances have been made in automated fixture design [161], existing research has mainly focused on designing new fixtures for a given geometry.
Chang [153] presented comprehensive conditions for holding the workpiece in a vise. These conditions are based on the intermediate workpiece geometry and are sufficient for successfully clamping the workpiece. He also presented an algorithm for setup planning that, while producing valid results, in certain cases may generate setup plans that are non-optimal;
http://www.isr.umd.edu/Labs/CIM/vm/ama/node16.html;