CAD/CAM in Practice: A Manager?s Guide to Understanding and Using CAD/CAM

ISBN 10: 0850388171 / ISBN 13: 9780850388176

Published by Springer, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CAD/CAM in Practice: A Manager?s Guide to Understanding and Using CAD/CAM
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850388171
• ISBN 13: 9780850388176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Little more than a decade ago computer-aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) was a very esoteric field indeed, not one that was of much practical concern to a manager or industrialist unless his business was on the scale of, say, a major automobile manufacturer or in a field of high technology such as aerospace. Like so much else, this situation was revo­ lutionized by the invention of the silicon chip, the arrival of the micro­ processor and the dramatic fall in the cost of computer hardware. Today, CAD/CAM has spread down the market, and down the price scale, to the point at which it is both a feasible and an affordable technology for a wide range of small-and medium-sized companies in areas as various as architec­ ture and general engineering, plastic moulding and consumer electronics. But the explosion - there is no other word for it - in the variety and capabilities of CAD/CAM systems, and their spectacular climb to the top of the hi-tech hit parade, has placed the potential purchaser and user of the new technology in a difficult position. On the one hand he is assured, not least by the manufacturers of CAD/CAM equipment, that a failure to invest in it will leave his company stranded in the industrial Stone Age.