Making MachineTools Smarter

摘要

Companies have reengineered manufacturing to the extent that workers and capital assets are capable of four times the output of 20 years ago. That productivity growth helped yesterday's mass production succeed, but the new challenge for machine tools is mass customization. Now with a shortened time to market and greater product variability, an added challenge becomes one of making the first part correct. The solution: making the machine tool smarter.