Article: Interfacing NC with CIM. (computer integrated manufacturing at Rock Island Arsenal uses binary cutter location) (Emphasis: Numerical Control and CAM)

Most shops think of a numerical control (NC) program as the data required to make a certain machine tool cut a particular workpiece. Planners at the US. Army's Rock Island Arsenal Operations Directorate used to think that way too. But when they began to implement a computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) strategy a few years ago, that thinking clearly had to go. Now they think of each NC program as a production process description that allows identical parts to be machined at any available piece of appropriate equipment."

They can think this way because that's what their NC programs have, in fact, become, at least for over 30 CNC (computer numerical control) ...

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