Development of a feature-based open soft-CNC system

Kamran Latif, Yusri Yusof, Aydin Nassehi, Qadir Bux Alias Imran Latif
2016 The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology  
Modern Computer Numerical Control (CNC) is intended to be more flexible, interoperable, adoptable, open and intelligent. In realisation of such a CNC system, an ISO standard known as STEP for Numeric Control (STEP-NC) or ISO 14649 was developed in 2004 to alleviate a number of challenges associated with the widely used CNC standard (ISO 6983). Implementation of STEP-NC was initially carried out on some commercial CNC systems via an indirect STEP-NC programming approach. However, this approach
more » ... iled to meet all the requirements of a modern CNC system, due to the translation of data from the high level to low level, which is vendor-specific and machine tool dependent, thus detrimental to the basic resource independent philosophy of STEP-NC. This paper presents a new generation of CNC systems, based on the Open Architecture Control (OAC) technology supported by STEP-NC data model to fundamentally solve these challenges. The developed system employs a new set of techniques for STEP-NC data interpretation, graphical verification, execution, monitoring and report generation that supersede the exiting techniques in scope and ca-
doi:10.1007/s00170-016-9124-0 fatcat:eajmbak6gffe7m5x5zbmbuhgsy