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...

The history of numerical control (NC) began when the automation of machine tools first incorporated concepts of abstractly programmable logic, and it...

Direct numerical control (DNC), also known as distributed numerical control (also DNC), is a common manufacturing term for networking CNC machine tools...

A numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) is a digital signal generator which creates a synchronous (i.e., clocked), discrete-time, discrete-valued representation...

Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical...

result, it is necessary to employ numerical methods to solve optimal control problems. In the early years of optimal control (c. 1950s to 1980s) the favored...

and stops, or via digitally-directed servomechanisms for computer numerical control lathes. The name derives from the way early turrets took the general...

provide automation products and services such as robotics and computer numerical control wireless systems. These companies are principally FANUC Corporation...

Siemens CNC (computer numerical control) control systems. During the early to late 1980s the Sinumerik "System 8" used G-code to control industrial systems...

milling machine (often called a mill). After the advent of computer numerical control (CNC) in the 1960s, milling machines evolved into machining centers:...