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An agent-based approach to STEP-NC CAD/CAM

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posted on 2018-06-29, 10:54 authored by Richard D. Allen
The 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.]

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Loughborough University. Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC).

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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© Richard David Allen

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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/

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2003

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

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  • en

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