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Evaluating Manufacturing Machine Control Language Standards: An Implementer s View

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Author(s)

Thomas R. Kramer

Abstract

The focus of this paper is: how can standards for manufacturing machine control languages be evaluated? What is required of a standard defining one of these languages so that implementations will interoperate? The paper provides a set of specific questions to ask about a control language standard. Reasons why the questions should be asked are given. Four machine control languages are used as examples: EIA-274-D, BCL, DMIS, and STEP-NC.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of PerMIS | 2007 |
Conference Dates
August 28-30, 2007
Conference Title
PerMIS
Pub Type
Conferences

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Keywords

AP 238, BCL, control, DMIS, EIA-274-D, ISO 10303, language, machine, standard
Manufacturing systems design and analysis

Citation

Kramer, T. (2007), Evaluating Manufacturing Machine Control Language Standards: An Implementer s View, Proceedings of PerMIS | 2007 |, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=823621 (Accessed October 25, 2025)

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Created December 28, 2007, Updated February 19, 2017
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