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An agent-based approach to STEP-NC CAD/CAM
thesis
posted on 2018-06-29, 10:54 authored by Richard D. AllenThe search for automatic manufacture of components has been and continues to be a major
goal of researchers since NC machines appeared in 1952. The ability to generate a NC tool path is now commonplace from CAD/CAM systems, but the technology used to program NC
machines is still based on the original standards. Today under the IMS project named STEP-NC in Europe and Asia, and Super Model in the USA, industrialists and academics are
collaborating to deliver a new data model for CNC machines entitled the ISO 14649 standard,
informally known as STEP-NC. The author believes that the STEP-NC standard will provide
software vendors with the basis to achieve this goal of automatic CNC manufacture. [Continues.]
Funding
Loughborough University. Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC).
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Publisher
© Richard David AllenPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2003Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en