Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Manufacturing Glossary | advancedmanufacturing.org
Imagine a software system that can eat massive amounts of data and spit out in-depth analyses, answer questions, and make informed decisions. That’s the power of AI.
Imagine a software system that can eat massive amounts of data and spit out in-depth analyses, answer questions, and make informed decisions. That’s the power of AI.
Two new turning products, the TRAK TC2 and the TRAK TC820si, are designed for production applications. The TC2 is a slant-bed lathe featuring the ProtoTRAK RLX CNC made for low-volume/high-mix
A standard in any CNC machine shop, CAD/CAM is a software platform that supports part drawing and design (CAD), as well as toolpath creation and generation of "G-code" for a specific machine
The computer screen you're looking at right now? It's a human-machine interface. So is the display on your coffee maker, the ATM where you get cash every Friday, the screen
Among the oldest of all manufactured products, castings are made by pouring molten metal into a mold cavity that has been shaped with a pattern resembling the target workpiece (sand or investment
When a machinist mounts a tilt-rotary table (which has two axes) onto a three-axis CNC machining center, then uses it to cut five sides of a workpiece sequentially, it's called
The digital twin's cousin, this term refers to the interconnectedness and flow of data across various software systems, starting with the design concept and going through to a product's
When stereolithography took off in the early 90s, everyone called it Rapid Prototyping. Today, 3D printing is no longer limited to prototypes, so the term has come to represent any
Ready to get away from it all? Don a pair of virtual reality (VR) goggles and escape to an immersive, three-dimensional world, one that's seeing increased use for industrial training
If you read the earlier section on SaaS (software as a service), you already know that these systems and their data reside “in the cloud,” just like your Instagram posts