Maybe you CAM, maybe you CANC: time to get serious about using low-end, low-cost CAM to off-line program your growing army of NC machines. (computer-aided manufacturing; computer-assisted numerical control)

From: Tooling & Production | Date: March 1, 1990| Author: Sprow, Eugene | Copyright information

Maybe you CAM, maybe you CANC

Time to get serious about using low-end, low-cost CAM to off-line program your growing army of NC machines.

Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), the shop-floor mate for computer-aided design (CAD), is a popular acronym defining the dream of major manufacturers for over a decade--the paperless factory where the definition of everything from initial part concept to final part inspection exists only in the bowels of a massive computer sys...

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