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Author John Connolly
Source Time Compression Technologies. v7 n3 May, 2002, pp 26-8
Abstract Remember when all your machinist had to do was click the spindle on and off, watch the cycle times and feedrates, change the tool and activate the clamp - manually. Well, today's NC machines are no longer islands unto themselves - they are driven by sophisticated software and hardware systems. Building these automated machining structures has been complex because there always has been a mismatch between software system lifetimes and the information they handle. This problem can get even more complicated with engineering software because CAD and the various analysis systems can change their programs every few years. But blueprints frequently must be archived for decades. Storing this type of information with software system "languages" that may not be here tomorrow clearly isn't a solution, and can be very expensive to manufacturers. To help solve the problem of translating a company's data language and speed along the product development process, the STEP software-integrated process was created. X X
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