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Rapid process planning in CNC machining for rapid manufacturing applications

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posted on 2017-03-09, 14:08 authored by Muhammed Nafis Osman Zahid, Keith Case, Darren WattsDarren Watts
Process planning is an important component in Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining and directly influences the efficiency of cutting operations. However the planning task is highly dependent on the user’s experience and is usually considered as a manual process. This paper seeks to remedy these problems by developing a tool to assist in executing the process planning task in CNC machining for rapid manufacturing applications. An advanced tool in Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) systems is exploited to record and generate programming code for instructions used to construct the operations. The code is then modified and integrated into the independent Graphical User Interface (GUI) to execute the process planning tasks within the CAM systems. Consequently, a customized program is developed and is capable of building the machining operations for all kinds of parts. The time spent for process planning is minimized and at the same time planning complexity that is highly depend on the user’s experience is reduced.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research

Volume

6

Issue

2

Pages

118 - 121 (4)

Citation

OSMAN ZAHID, M.N., CASE, K. and WATTS, D.M., 2017. Rapid process planning in CNC machining for rapid manufacturing applications. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, 6(2), pp. 118-121.

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© IJMERR

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-01-11

Publication date

2017-03-31

Notes

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by IJMERR under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY-NC-ND). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

ISSN

2278-0149

Language

  • en

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