For CAD/CAPP integration, part information on not only geometry but also machining characteristics should be delivered and commonly used between designers and process planners. In this study, the machining features, as linking factors of the integration, are represented as the combination of functional features and atomic features and grouped into a hierarchical database. And the feature based modelling approach is used by generating information on the machining features in design stage. These features are drawn by analyzing real decision rules of process planners. The database using the machining features is built and used for application modules of process planning, operation planning and standard time estimation.