Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
MTConnect is a manufacturing technical standard to retrieve process information from numerically controlled machine tools.As explained by a member of the team that developed it, [1] "This standard specifies the open-source, royalty-free communications protocol based on XML and HTTP Internet technology for real-time data sharing between shopfloor equipment such as machine tools and computer ...
Direct numerical control (DNC), also known as distributed numerical control (also DNC), is a common manufacturing term for networking CNC machine tools.On some CNC machine controllers, the available memory is too small to contain the machining program (for example machining complex surfaces), so in this case the program is stored in a separate computer and sent directly to the machine, one ...
Yamazaki Mazak Corporation (ヤマザキマザック株式会社, Yamazaki Mazakku Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese machine tool builder based in Oguchi, Japan. [3] In most of the world they are referred to as Mazak .
STEP-NC interface on a CNC, showing product shape and color-coded tolerance state. STEP-NC is a machine tool control language that extends the ISO 10303 STEP standards with the machining model in ISO 14649, [1] adding geometric dimension and tolerance data for inspection, and the STEP PDM model for integration into the wider enterprise.
MazaCAM is a CNC programming system [1] for the Mazak CNC (Numerical control) machine-tools (see Yamazaki Mazak Corporation [2]), sold and supported by SolutionWare Corporation. [3] MazaCAM [4] differs from most other CNC programming systems in that it can generate CNC programs in both Mazatrol [5] and G-code.
The proliferation of CNC led to the need for new CNC standards that were not encumbered by licensing or particular design concepts, like proprietary extensions to APT. [19] A number of different "standards" proliferated for a time, often based around vector graphics markup languages supported by plotters .
In machining, an automatic tool changer (ATC) is used in computerized numerical control (CNC) machine tools to improve the production and tool carrying capacity of the machine. ATCs change tools rapidly, reducing non-productive time. They are generally used to improve the capacity of the machines to work with a number of tools.
Several builders have developed their own CNC controls over the years (including Mazak, Okuma, Haas, Dalian Kede and others), but Okuma is unusual among machine tool builders for the degree to which it designs and builds all of its own hardware, software, and machine components. This is the company's "Single Source" philosophy.