All About CNC

Programming Systems Two types of programming modes, the incremental system and the absolute system, are used for CNC. Both systems have ...

CNC Machine Types   1. CNC Lathe The engine lathe, one of the most productive machine tools, has always been an efficient means of...

Fig. 1 Intersecting lines form right angles and establish the zero point (Allen-Bradley) Cartesian Coordinate System Fig. 2 The t...

CNC arrives Many of the commands for the experimental parts were programmed "by hand" to produce the punch tapes that were ...

Numerical control ( NC ) refers to the automation of machine tools that are operated by abstractly programmed commands encoded on a sto...

Parsons and Sikorsky The birth of NC is generally credited to John T. Parsons , a machinist and salesman at his father's machining co...

HISTORY Earlier forms of automation Cams The automation of machine tool control began in the 19th century with cams that "played...