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    In machining, numerical control, also called computer numerical control (CNC), is the automated control of tools by means of a computer. It is used to...
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  • programmable logic, and it continues today with the ongoing evolution of computer numerical control (CNC) technology. The first NC machines were built in the 1940s...
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  • 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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  • but few run exclusively lights-out production. For example, in computer numerical control machining, the presence of human workers is typically required...
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    Siemens CNC (computer numerical control) control systems. During the early to late 1980s the Sinumerik "System 8" used G-code to control industrial systems...
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    slide and stops, or via digitally-directed servomechanisms for computer numerical control lathes. The name derives from the way early turrets took the general...
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    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. Other computers had...
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    CNC router (category Numerical control)
    A computer numerical control (CNC) router is a computer-controlled cutting machine which typically mounts a hand-held router as a spindle which is used...
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  • dictionary. CNC typically refers to computer numerical control, the automated control of machining tools by computer. CNC or cnc may also refer to: China...
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    loads comparable to natural wood with the same cross-section. Computer numerical control (CNC) allows architects and designers to cut glued laminated timber...
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