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New system architecture and algorithm design for indirect STEP-NC implementation

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The adoption of STEP-NC on CNC machines has been one of the most enduring difficulties in daily operations. It is not outside of the realm of possibility to put this solution into practice by techniques that are indirect, interpretative, or adaptive. In this implementation, the interpreted approach’s performance was noticeably better than the indirect method’s. In this particular field, a substantial amount of investigation still needs to be carried out. This investigation focuses on a better interpreted STEP-NC programming paradigm, and a novel data interpretation approach along with algorithm design are presented. The system has been contributed with the latest hybrid method, which combines the indirect and interpreted strategies for constructing tool paths. In addition, the interpretation algorithm has been updated to incorporate a method for extracting data in two layers (entity and string). The entirety of the system is made up of a variety of software tools and algorithms for the purpose of data extraction, tool path development, and execution. The information included in the paper explains the system’s structure and the process used to construct the algorithm. In addition, it has been tested on the STEP-NC part 21 examples 1 and 2.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education and the Department of Engineering Technology, Fakulti Teknikal Dan Vokasional, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI). The authors also acknowledge the contributions of Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Brasilia, National Service for Industrial Apprenticeship SENAI, Senai Innovation Institute For Embedded Systems, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), the Advanced Manufacturing and Material Centre (AMMC) of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), and the Production Laboratory of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).

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This work is supported by the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) Malaysia under the Prototype Research Grant Scheme (PRGS) number PRGS/2020/FTKMP-COSSID/T00026.

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  1. Department of Engineering Technology, Fakulti Teknikal Dan Vokasional,Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Tanjung Malim, Malaysia

    Kamran Latif

  2. Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Parit Raja, Malaysia

    Yusri Yusof

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Malaysia

    Aini Zuhra Abdul Kadir

  4. Senai Innovation Institute For Embedded Systems, Senai, Brazil

    Renan Bonnard

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil

    Efrain Rodriguez

  6. National Service for Industrial Apprenticeship, Senai, Brazil

    Nazareno de Oliveira Pacheco

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Latif, K., Yusof, Y., Kadir, A.Z.A. et al. New system architecture and algorithm design for indirect STEP-NC implementation. Int J Interact Des Manuf 17, 1895–1903 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-023-01317-5

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