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2 CNC Machines producing the master, ster, as the mastor To made wt and it has to be produced to a high dante ae agains r the cost. of manufacture of vbeteh sinc hare he limit ewit Miso hit Switehes and stoppors for 'W product requires many legst some Portion of this data”) 'his definition, as applied to the be elaborated as, controlling Pared programme, which con: control of machine tools, machine a pre ce eal rome ae ‘Aithabets or alphanumeris, These numbers deine ee ‘each machine slido, fo pood and devuirat at In adaltion ene Side feed, cutting speed and depth of at : Finished component drawing. In case of the manufactere or ‘com- plicated parts, the syst. reels ‘system calculates the additional data points NC MACHINES (The control systems and machine machine tools have varying compl. Initial stages, tho NC machine tol only to control the bo the eutting tool. The operator speed and feeds etc. In the next ‘tools in numerically controlled lexities and capabilities, In the is had NC systems added to the sition of the workpiece relative had to select the cutting tools, tt stage, the capabilities of the Introduction to Numerical Control of Machines % machine tools improved and in addition to maintaining cutter/ workpiece relationship, the material removal was also controlled by the numerical control system. The mechanical design of the machine tool was also improved with the development of recirculating ball screw and better slideways. These machines are ‘Sforrod fo a2 NC miaohines. The instructions othe NC machines are fod through an external medium i.e. paper tape or magnetic tape. The information read from the tape is stored into the memory of the control system called ‘buffer storage’ and is pro- cessed by the machine step by step. So when the machine is working on one instruction block, the next block is read from the tape and stored in the memory of the machine control system. Since the part cannot be produced without a tape being run through the machine, these machines are also called tape con- trolled machines. The tape has to be run repeatedly depending on the number of components to be produced. Also if there is even a minor change in the design of the component, the tape has to be discarded and new tape with changed programme has to be produced) \\ONC MACHINES dn case of computer numerical control machine tools, a dedicated ‘computer is used to perform all the basic NC functions. The complete part programme to produce a component is input and stored in the computer. memory and the information for each operation is fed to the machine tools i.e. motors, ete. The part programmes can be stored in the memory of the computer and used in ‘future. The conventional NE machine tools are not much in use these days, CNC machine tools are widely used due to many new control features available on these machines. Some of the additional features available in CNC machine tools are)

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