This is a comprehensive textbook catering for BTEC students at NIII and Higher National levels, advanced City and Guilds courses, and the early years of degree courses. It is also ideal for use in industrial retraining and post-experience programmes.
Offers instruction in manufacturing engineering management strategies to help the student optimize future manufacturing processes and procedures. This edition includes innovations that have changed management's approach toward the uses of manufacturing engineering within the business continuum.
Until now, parametric programming has been the best-kept secret of CNC! This new book demystifies this simple yet sophisticated programming tool in an easy-to-understand tutorial format, and presents a comprehensive how-to of parametric programming from a user's point of view. Focusing on three of the most popular versions of parametric programming - Fanuc's custom macro B. Okuma's user task 2, and Fadal's macro - the book describes what parametric programming is, what it can do, and how it does it more efficiently than manual programming. Along with a host of program-simplifying techniques included in the book, you're treated to descriptions of how to write, set-up and run general subprograms simulate the addition of control options and integrate higher level programming capabilities at G-code level.
Basic principles of automatic control. The application of automatic control to machine tools. Code, tapes and tapes readers. Numerical control of machine tools. Positional control of slides and tool changing systems. NC machine tools. Economics of NC machine tools. Tape preparation and programming. Computer-aided programming I. Computer-aided programming II. Charts for evaluating NC machining costs. Form used for Romance part-programming.
Provides the ideas, guidelines and techniques you need to capture the full potential of your CNC equipment. Nearly every aspect of CNC operations is addressed and the book is organized so you can use it as a step-by-step guide to efficient CNC utilization or as a shop floor reference for continuous improvement. Hundreds of specific utilization-boosting techniques are detailed.
This textbook covers the basics of CNC, introducing key terms and explaining the codes. It uses Fanuc compatible programming in examples and provides CAD/CAM lathe and mill program examples accompanied by computer screen displays. Included is a CAD/CAM software program for designing parts, generating machine codes, and simulating the tool path to check for programming errors. An illustrated glossary is also included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This remarkable account describes the development of the principal method used in the automatic control of machine tools by computer means. The book will interest all those involved in planning and implementing innovative industrial research programs, along with historians of technology and engineering.