Making CNC machine tools more open, interoperable and intelligent - A review of the technologies

Computers in Industry

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-152

  Xu, X W ^a,c,d   Newman, S T ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c ASME   (New Zealand)

^d IPENZ ^*  (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CNC; Interoperability; STEP; STEP NC

Indexed keywords

CNC; DATA MODEL; STEP; STEP-NC;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

MACHINE TOOLS;

EID: 30544437580     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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