TY  - JOUR
AB  - Switching to the MasterCam CNC programming system has allowed Ford
Motor Company research staff to produce a wide variety of prototype
parts with complex contours on CNC machine tools rather than building
patterns by hand and casting the parts. The advantages have been
impressive. (1) The need to build patterns by hand has been eliminated,
thus reducing the cost of the average prototype part by 75 per cent. (2)
Lead time has been reduced from an average of three weeks for pattern
making, mould making and casting to a typical 48 hours for programming
and CNC machining; and (3) prototype quality has been greatly improved
because the machined parts possess mathematically sound contours rather
than hand filed approximations.
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SN  - 0957-6061
DO  - 10.1108/09576069110142207
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/09576069110142207
AU  - Fireman Jerry
PY  - 1991
Y1  - 1991/01/01
TI  - Lead Time and Cost Reduction: A CNC Programming System for
Motor Vehicle Prototypes
T2  - Integrated Manufacturing Systems
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 26
EP  - 28
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -