Integrated Automated Manufacture of Metal Parts

Published

January 1, 1986

Author(s)

Thomas R. Kramer

Abstract

This paper describes a system for the automated manufacture of metal parts developed at the National Bureau of Standards by the author and his colleagues. The paper emphasizes the software. The system includes a friendly CAD editor for a feature-based design protocol, an automatic process planner, an nc-code writer, a vertical milling machine tended by a robot, and a workstation control system. The software for the control system, the editor, the process planner, and the code-writer is in Lisp and runs on a Sun computer. The system, optionally, will draw the part being made, verify the design, and verify the process plan. A part may be designed and made within an hour on this system.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the IEEE National Aerospace & Electronics Conference

Pub Type

Conferences

Keywords

automated manufacturing, metal parts, CAD, design protocol, vertical milling machine

Citation

Kramer, T. (1986), Integrated Automated Manufacture of Metal Parts, Proceedings of the IEEE National Aerospace & Electronics Conference (Accessed April 25, 2024)