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Importance of CAM in MFG Industry Today

CAM allows for direct computer interface with manufacturing plants to plan, manage, and control operations. It bridges the gap between conceptual design and finished product by converting CAD designs directly into manufacturing instructions understood by computer-controlled machine tools. This eliminates the need for physical prototypes and manual conversion of designs, allowing items to be manufactured with precision according to the original CAD model.

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Importance of CAM in MFG Industry Today

CAM allows for direct computer interface with manufacturing plants to plan, manage, and control operations. It bridges the gap between conceptual design and finished product by converting CAD designs directly into manufacturing instructions understood by computer-controlled machine tools. This eliminates the need for physical prototypes and manual conversion of designs, allowing items to be manufactured with precision according to the original CAD model.

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Q) What is CAM ?

Explain its importance in the present day


manufacturing industry.
A) Computer Aided manufacturing can be defined as The use of computer systems to plan ,
manage and control the operations of a manufacturing plant either direct or indirect
computer interface with the plants production resources.
The field of computer-aided design has steadily advanced over the past four decades to the stage
at which conceptual designs for new products can be made entirely within the framework of
CAD software. From the development of the basic design to the Bill of Materials necessary to
manufacture the product there is no requirement at any stage of the process to build physical
prototypes.
Computer-Aided Manufacturing takes this one step further by bridging the gap between the
conceptual design and the manufacturing of the finished product. Whereas in the past it would be
necessary for design developed using CAD software to be manually converted into a drafted
paper drawing detailing instructions for its manufacture, Computer-Aided Manufacturing
software allows data from CAD software to be converted directly into a set of manufacturing
instructions.
CAM software converts 3D models generated in CAD into a set of basic operating instructions
written in G-Code. G-code is a programming language that can be understood by numerical
controlled machine tools essentially industrial robots and the G-code can instruct the machine
tool to manufacture a large number of items with perfect precision and faith to the CAD design.

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