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81 relations: Abrasive, Automatic lathe, Automatic tool changer, Automation, Backlash (engineering), Ball bearing, Bending, Brass, Cam, Canned cycle, Carving, CNC wood router, Compressed air, Computer-aided design, Computer-aided engineering, Computer-aided manufacturing, Computer-aided technologies, Coordinate-measuring machine, Cutter location, Cutting, Cylindrical grinder, Design for manufacturability, Direct numerical control, Drill, Electric current, Electrical discharge machining, Electronic Industries Alliance, Ferrite (magnet), G-code, Gear, Gerber format, Glass cutter, Granite, Home automation, Hot-wire foam cutter, Induction hardening, Laser cutting, Lathe, Limit switch, Liquid dielectric, Machine embroidery, Machine tool, Machinery's Handbook, Machining, Maslow CNC, Metalworking, Micrometer, Milling (machining), Modern Machine Shop, Multiaxis machining, ..., Open-loop controller, Oxy-fuel welding and cutting, Part program, Plasma (physics), Plasma channel, Plasma cutting, Plasma torch, Punched tape, Reamer, Recycling, Repeatability, Robotics, Saw, Servomechanism, Servomotor, Shaping, Sheet metal, Steering wheel, Stepper motor, Submerged arc welding, Surface grinding, Turret punch, Ultrasonic welding, Vernier scale, Voltage, Water jet cutter, Welding, Wireless DNC, Zinc, 3D modeling, 3D printing. Expand index (31 more) »
Abrasive
An abrasive is a material, often a mineral, that is used to shape or finish a workpiece through rubbing which leads to part of the workpiece being worn away by friction.
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Automatic lathe
An automatic lathe is a lathe (usually a metalworking lathe) whose actions are controlled automatically.
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Automatic tool changer
An Automatic tool changer or ATC is used in computerized numerical control (CNC) machine tools to improve the production and tool carrying capacity of the machine.
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Automation
Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed without human assistance.
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Backlash (engineering)
In mechanical engineering, backlash, sometimes called lash or play, is a clearance or lost motion in a mechanism caused by gaps between the parts.
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Ball bearing
A ball bearing is a type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation between the bearing races.
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Bending
In applied mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element.
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Brass
Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.
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Cam
A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion.
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Canned cycle
A canned cycle is a way of conveniently performing repetitive CNC machine operations.
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Carving
Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material.
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CNC wood router
A CNC wood router is a CNC router tool that creates objects from wood.
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Compressed air
Compressed air is air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure.
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Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer systems to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.
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Computer-aided engineering
Computer-aided engineering (CAE) is the broad usage of computer software to aid in engineering analysis tasks.
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Computer-aided manufacturing
Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) is the use of software to control machine tools and related ones in the manufacturing of workpieces.
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Computer-aided technologies
Computer-aided technologies (CAx) is the use of computer technology to aid in the design, analysis, and manufacture of products.
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Coordinate-measuring machine
A coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is a device that measures the geometry of physical objects by sensing discrete points on the surface of the object with a probe.
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Cutter location
A cutter location (CLData) refers to the position which a CNC milling machine has been instructed to hold a milling cutter by the instructions in the program (typically G-code).
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Cutting
Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force.
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Cylindrical grinder
The cylindrical grinder is a type of grinding machine used to shape the outside of an object.
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Design for manufacturability
Design for manufacturability (also sometimes known as design for manufacturing or DFM) is the general engineering practice of designing products in such a way that they are easy to manufacture.
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Direct numerical control
Direct numerical control (DNC), also known as distributed numerical control (also DNC), is a common manufacturing term for networking CNC machine tools.
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Drill
A drill is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for boring holes in various materials or fastening various materials together.
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Electric current
An electric current is a flow of electric charge.
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Electrical discharge machining
Electrical discharge machining (EDM), also known as spark machining, spark eroding, burning, die sinking, wire burning or wire erosion, is a manufacturing process whereby a desired shape is obtained by using electrical discharges (sparks).
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Electronic Industries Alliance
The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA; until 1997 Electronic Industries Association) was a standards and trade organization composed as an alliance of trade associations for electronics manufacturers in the United States.
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Ferrite (magnet)
A ferrite is a ceramic material made by mixing and firing large proportions iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3, rust) blended with small proportions of one or more additional metallic elements, such as barium, manganese, nickel, and zinc.
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G-code
G-code (also RS-274), which has many variants, is the common name for the most widely used numerical control (NC) programming language.
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Gear
A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut like teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque.
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Gerber format
The Gerber format is an open ASCII vector format for 2D binary images.
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Glass cutter
A glass cutter is a tool used to make a shallow score in one surface of a piece of glass that is to be broken in two pieces.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Home automation
Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home, called a smart home or smart house.
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Hot-wire foam cutter
A hot-wire foam cutter is a tool used to cut polystyrene foam and similar materials.
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Induction hardening
Induction hardening is a type of surface hardening in which a metal part is induction-heated and then quenched.
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Laser cutting
Laser cutting is a technology that uses a laser to cut materials, and is typically used for industrial manufacturing applications, but is also starting to be used by schools, small businesses, and hobbyists.
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Lathe
A lathe is a tool that rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.
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Limit switch
In electrical engineering a limit switch is a switch operated by the motion of a machine part or presence of an object.
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Liquid dielectric
A liquid dielectric is a dielectric material in liquid state.
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Machine embroidery
Machine embroidery is an embroidery process whereby a sewing machine or embroidery machine is used to create patterns on textiles.
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Machine tool
A machine tool is a machine for shaping or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformation.
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Machinery's Handbook
Machinery's Handbook for machine shop and drafting-room; a reference book on machine design and shop practice for the mechanical engineer, draftsman, toolmaker, and machinist (the full title of the 1st edition) is a classic reference work in mechanical engineering and practical workshop mechanics in one volume published by Industrial Press, New York, since 1914.
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Machining
Machining is any of various processes in which a piece of raw material is cut into a desired final shape and size by a controlled material-removal process.
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Maslow CNC
Maslow CNC is an open-source CNC router project.
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Metalworking
Metalworking is the process of working with metals to create individual parts, assemblies, or large-scale structures.
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Micrometer
A micrometer, sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for precise measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining as well as most mechanical trades, along with other metrological instruments such as dial, vernier, and digital calipers.
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Milling (machining)
Milling is the machining process of using rotary cutters to remove material from a workpiece by advancing (or feeding) the cutter into the workpiece at a certain direction.
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Modern Machine Shop
Modern Machine Shop (ISSN 0026-8003) is a media brand that reports on product technology and process technology being used in North America's CNC machining and metalworking industry.
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Multiaxis machining
Multiaxis machining is a manufacturing process where computer numerically controlled tools that move in 4 or more ways are used to manufacture parts out of metal or other materials by milling away excess material, by water jet cutting or by laser cutting.
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Open-loop controller
In an open-loop controller, also called a non-feedback controller, the control action from the controller is independent of the "process output", which is the process variable that is being controlled.
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Oxy-fuel welding and cutting
Principle of the burn cutting Oxy-fuel welding (commonly called oxyacetylene welding, oxy welding, or gas welding in the U.S.) and oxy-fuel cutting are processes that use fuel gases and oxygen to weld and cut metals, respectively.
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Part program
A part program is a set of instructions given to a computerized numerical control (CNC) machine to control its operation.
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Plasma (physics)
Plasma (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon, on Perseus) is one of the four fundamental states of matter, and was first described by chemist Irving Langmuir in the 1920s.
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Plasma channel
A plasma channel is a conductive channel of plasma.
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Plasma cutting
Plasma cutting is a process that cuts through electrically conductive materials by means of an accelerated jet of hot plasma.
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Plasma torch
A plasma torch (also known as a plasma arc, plasma gun, or plasma cutter, plasmatron) is a device for generating a directed flow of plasma.
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Punched tape
Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage, consisting of a long strip of paper in which holes are punched to store data.
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Reamer
A reamer is a type of rotary cutting tool used in metalworking.
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Recycling
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
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Repeatability
Repeatability or test–retest reliability is the closeness of the agreement between the results of successive measurements of the same measurand carried out under the same conditions of measurement.
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Robotics
Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science, and others.
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Saw
A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge.
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Servomechanism
In control engineering a servomechanism, sometimes shortened to servo, is an automatic device that uses error-sensing negative feedback to correct the action of a mechanism.
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Servomotor
A servomotor is a rotary actuator or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity and acceleration.
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Shaping
Shaping can refer to.
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Sheet metal
Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces.
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Steering wheel
A steering wheel (also called a driving wheel or a hand wheel) is a type of steering control in vehicles and vessels (ships and boats).
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Stepper motor
A stepper motor or step motor or stepping motor is a brushless DC electric motor that divides a full rotation into a number of equal steps.
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Submerged arc welding
Submerged arc welding (SAW) is a common arc welding process.
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Surface grinding
Surface grinding is used to produce a smooth finish on flat surfaces.
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Turret punch
A turret punch or turret press is a type of punch press used for metal forming by punching.
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Ultrasonic welding
Ultrasonic welding is an industrial technique whereby high-frequency ultrasonic acoustic vibrations are locally applied to workpieces being held together under pressure to create a solid-state weld.
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Vernier scale
A vernier scale is a visual aid that allows the user to measure more precisely than could be done unaided when reading a uniformly divided straight or circular measurement scale.
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Voltage
Voltage, electric potential difference, electric pressure or electric tension (formally denoted or, but more often simply as V or U, for instance in the context of Ohm's or Kirchhoff's circuit laws) is the difference in electric potential between two points.
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Water jet cutter
A water jet cutter, also known as a water jet or waterjet, is an industrial tool capable of cutting a wide variety of materials using a very high-pressure jet of water, or a mixture of water and an abrasive substance.
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Welding
Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing fusion, which is distinct from lower temperature metal-joining techniques such as brazing and soldering, which do not melt the base metal.
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Wireless DNC
Wireless DNC is a form of wireless data transfer, known as Direct Numerical Control, performed between a computer numerical control (CNC) machine and the computer controlling it.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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3D modeling
In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling (or three-dimensional modeling) is the process of developing a mathematical representation of any surface of an object (either inanimate or living) in three dimensions via specialized software.
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3D printing
3D printing is any of various processes in which material is joined or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object, with material being added together (such as liquid molecules or powder grains being fused together).
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