When a machine has its own independent computer control unit.
A computer-based motion control device programmable in a numerical word address format. A computer numerical control product typically includes a CPU section, operator interface devices, input/output signal and data devices, software and related peripheral apparatus.
CNC software provides a machine with instructions describing how to manufacture an item. This is similar to CAM but is specific to each machine. CNC machines are most often used for precision cutting, drilling, or shaping of metal products.
This is the use of computers to control machinery. We can "program" a mahine to do a task by entering numbers into a numeric keypad.
The control of motion in an accurate and programmable manner through use of a dedicated computer within a numerical control unit having local data input such that machine tools are freed from the need for hard-wired controllers.
A CAM technology using computers to control cutting machines such as milling machines and lathes to cut specified three-dimensional shapes. CNC has been used since the early 1970s. Prior to this, machines were controlled by prepared tapes and the process was called simply Numerical Control (NC).
Refers to a machine tool which is operated under automatic control, as opposed to manually by an operator.
Manufacturing software that interfaces with a specific machine, providing precise mathematical instructions on how to manufacture a piece.
