Pulling your punches: The greatest leap in CNC CAM programming since punch cards

Posted on 15 Dec 2023 by The Manufacturer

With its AI-driven software solutions, CloudNC is aiming to help manufacturers raise productivity, shorten lead times and cope with industry’s widening skills gap. Jonny Williamson reports

It’s hard to overstate just how revolutionary the use of punch cards to control machine tools was. The technique marked a significant shift from manual control methods and laid the foundation for the development of modern Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) systems. Before the arrival of punch cards in the 1950s, machining processes were labour intensive, error-prone…

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