Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, 8th in SI Units by Pearson

Chapter 38

Computer-aided Manufacturing

38.1 Introduction

38.2 Manufacturing Systems

38.3 Computer-integrated Manufacturing

38.4 Computer-aided Design and Engineering

38.5 Computer-aided Manufacturing

38.6 Computer-aided Process Planning

38.7 Computer Simulation of Manufacturing Processes and Systems

38.8 Group Technology

 

• Computers have fundamentally and pervasively changed the product design and manufacturing enterprise; powerful computer software is now available to assist and integrate all engineering tasks.
• This chapter opens with a description of computer-aided design, in which the graphic description of parts is created and stored in software.
• The use of computers in the direct control of manufacturing processes and in computer-aided ...