Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Conversational CNC Programming

What you're describing fits the definition of 'conversational programming'.
Now, while I haven't been everywhere, it *has* been my experience that
off-line programming is more time/cost effective. Picture it as; the
machine is capable of producing parts at a rate of 3 to 4 hundred dollars
(US) per hour (and, indeed considerably more, in some cases). The operator
is getting probably $16 to $20 per hour - if he (okay, or she) is a real
Cracker-Jack. Anyways, why would you employ that operator to spend a half
hour programming a complex part that could have been programmed off-line by
a programmer making, perhaps $20 to $24 per hour, but, in the meantime, the
machine could be EARNING several hundreds of dollars in that amount of
time? At least that's been my experience with "conversational programming'
in a production, job-shop. It might work okay for Home Shop Machinists,
though. Anybody else have thoughts on this? Or is this bordering on O-T?
(Or is it a case of, "If you have to ask, it is")?

RayHex

----------

> From: forumtvm <forumtvm@...>

snip

>
> What I am trying to get is a "video" of someone action on a "real"
> CNC machine with a controller on conversational programming. What
> does he do? Does he, like described above, have an interface where he
> respond to queries and have the "conversational program" generate an
> NC program which he will then have to feed to a controller to run it,
> or does he run it like MDI except it is not blocks like G00 X5, etc.
> Sorry, just hoping to visualise what exactly is conversational
> programming.