CAD (Computer Aided Design)/CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing)

The computer-aided design, better known by the acronym CAD (computer-aided design), is the use of a wide range of computational tools that assist engineers, architects and designers. The CAD is also used as part of management processes product lifecycle. The computer aided manufacturing (in Latin America) or computer-aided manufacturing (in Spain), also known by the acronym CAM (computer-aided manufacturing), involves the use of computers and computer technology to aid in the direct phase manufacture of a product, is a bridge between CAD Computer Aided Design and programming language machine tools with minimal operator intervention. It is part of systems planning and production process CAPP, including scheduling, management and quality control.

Applications

• Computerized numerical control and industrial robots
• Given design and casting molds in which, for example, tolerances contraction (part II) are reprogrammed
• Given for metalworking operations, for example, given complicated for formed of laminae, and given progressive stamping
• Design tools and electrodes for EDM.
• Quality control and inspection; for example, coordinate measuring machines programmed in a workstation CAD / CAM