IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH DIGITAL MANUFACTURING

In the future the digitalization and "Industry 4.0” will be in every step of the product lifecycle from design to the manufacture, service, and maintenance. Through digitalization, the companies will be able to operate and program the complex CNC machine tools that will be ready to respond more flexibly to the market demands and at the same time to boost their productivity. Work preparation and production can be breaking down further into additional process steps, ranging from tendering to quality assurance. The demand for digitalization solution can be illustrated thru the following targets and questions what every production company must define and establish: 1. How long time will be the part on the machine to be manufacturi; 2. Is that CNC machine tools (what is able and have the technical characteristics) available; 3. Are necessary new cutting tools for this new job; 4.The CNC operator is familiar with the CNC control equipment; 5. Does the workpiece tolerance correspond with the customer specifications. Is not so easy to link up all this requests and to find the best solutions in time and to have high productivity. Digital manufacturing will give us the preliminary units costs and delivery deadline that must be determined to be able to tender for a job correctly. Today, the amount of time a workpiece will require for machining can be calculated quickly reliably and very important, without trial runs, using CNC simulation solutions. This recommendations from our paper can be an answer at the production companies and the advantage of this implementations is that can be made step by step. The solution of this implementation should be in concordance with the company’s requirements and resources.

The Application of Simulation Software in CNC Multi-Axis Machining Teaching

Combined with the requirements for multi-axis CNC machining technicians in manufacturing industry, the current situation and problems existed in CNC multi-axis machining teaching are analyzed initially in this paper. Afterwards, in order to solve these problems and achieve theoretical teaching and skills training purposes, the advantages of CNC simulation software are applied in CNC multi-axis machining teaching. Finally, the deficiencies of the CNC simulation software are discussed so as to avoid in teaching.

Moving-Average-Based CNC Simulation System with NC Instruction Interpretations

The paper presents a novel acceleration/deceleration (acc/dec) control algorithm based on moving-average. The proposed algorithm makes use of the moving-average method to dispose the velocities of all the discrete points obtained by linear acc/dec control algorithm. The acceleration curve is continuous and the speed curve is smooth obtained by this method. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm has easier calculation to achieve. Therefore, CNC simulation system with NC instruction interpretation is established based on this proposed algorithm. The system not only simulates the executive process of NC program files, but also realizes the simulation of speed and acceleration curve, process time and distance with the unit of controlling period. At the same time, the simulation system considers the acc/dec control of feed speed therefore the simulation time equals the real process time. Those will be the value of the instruction to the process of the real machining.

The Geometric Modeling of Pieces in Virtual Milling Simulation

The process simulation of virtual machining is the key technique in the CNC simulation system. So the paper talks about some useful geometric modeling techniques in simulation field, and bring forward an improved object-space separating modeling technique based on the idea of Dexel and the data-type of Z-MAP, which is a kind of geometric modeling for pieces for milling process simulation. This method is to a certain degree reduced calculation quantities in simulation, increased the speed of simulation and optimized the effect of simulation.