A system has been developed to manage simulation information of manufacturing processes, such as mesh information, boundary conditions and process parameters. The goal is to enable information sharing and exchange to make it possible to simulate a whole chain of manufacturing processes, and thereby predict how a modification in one manufacturing process affects the characteristics of the final product. The system has been used to predict successful simulation of a cutting process using mesh information and process parameters. An object-relational database management system is embedded in the system that uses a conceptual EXPRESS schema as database schema. The database management system is lightweight main-memory resident and incorporates an extensible and object-oriented query language. Uniform storage using database technology enables information manipulation independently of any specific simulation tool.