机电专业英语 教学课件 作者 姚永玉 常云朋 周丽丹 20186 Part6 Advanced Manufacturing Technology.pptVIP

Part6 Advanced Manufacturing Technology Unit 1Computer Numerical Control Reading Target 1．Know what is Computer Numerical Control (CNC). 2．Understand the motion control type of CNC. 3．Illustrate the basic knowledge of CNC program. 4．Know what CNC control can do. Text CNC stands for Computer Numerical Control and has been around since the early 1970s. Prior to this, it was called NC, for Numerical Control. (In the early 1970s computer was introduced to these control, hence the name change.) While people in most walks of life have never heard of this term, CNC has touched almost every form of manufacturing process in one way or another[1]. If you will be working in manufacturing, it is likely that youll be dealing with CNC on a regular basis. While there are expectation to this statement, CNC machines typically replace (or work in conjunction with) some existing manufacturing processes. Take one of the simplest manufacturing processes, drilling holes, as an example. A drill press can of course be used to machine holes. (It is likely that almost everyone has seen some forms of drill press, even if you dont work in manufacturing) A person can place a drill in the drill chuck that is secured in the spindle of the drill press. They can then (manually) select the desired speed for rotation (commonly by switching belt pulleys), and activate the spindle. Then they manually pull on the quill lever to drive the drill into the workpiece being machined. As you can easily see, there is a lot of manual intervention required to use a drill press to drill holes. A person is required to do something almost every step along the way! While this manual intervention may be acceptable for manufacturing companies if but a small number of holes or workpieces must be machined, as quantities grow, so does the likelihood of fatigue due to the tediousness of the operations (drilling) as our example [2]. There are more complicated machining operations that would require a much higher