Computer-Aided Run-In of CNC Programmes

Todate the necessary rationalization procedures in the manufacturing environment to achieve competitive advantage have taken place mostly, from a high level, centralised point of view within organisations. Additional competitive success can only be achieved through consequential shop floor orientation. Existing resources at the shop floor level, for example processing proximity and manufacturing know-how can be used to ad-vantage. In this paper, a shop floor oriented approach is presented using the example of reduction of the run-in time of CNC-Programmes. A computer aided method for the run-in of CNC-Programmes is presented. Up to now this : ask has been undertaken empirically. The result is a transparent, well structured and thus target oriented run-in system which assists the production planning process and which leads to significant time saving.