X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Numerical control


Goodwin Steel Castings

The Goodwin machine shop employs some 270 people in its modern CNC machining facility.

Rajkot

The city is also home to some of the largest CNC machine and auto parts manufacturers in the country such as Jyoti CNC Automation Pvt.

RS-232

Additionally, modern industrial automation equipment, such as PLCs, VFDs, servo drives, and CNC equipment are programmable via RS-232.


Horizontal boring machine

The accuracy of this machine convinced the USAF to accept John Parson's idea for numerically controlled machine tools.

Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal

Several countries of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) member nations had illegally exported to the Soviet Union machine tools that could be used in combination with the Kongsberg numerical control (NC) devices made in Norway in violation of the CoCom agreement during the Cold War.


see also

RS-274-D

A version of the G-code computer numerical control language, standardized by EIA