posted on 2018-06-29, 10:54authored byRichard 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.]
Funding
Loughborough University. Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC).
History
School
Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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Publication date
2003
Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.