The principal barriers to quick turnaround aren’t the costs associated with keeping the lights on, nor with buying or maintaining equipment. In many machine shops, the primary expenses are human. Yet, at start-up machine shop Plethora, there are no robot arms or other obvious forms of automation reducing labor on the shop floor. It’s all behind the scenes—programming machines.This shop created automation that consists, in part, of complex software algorithms that choose and apply tool paths to solid models automatically. This back-end system is linked directly to front-end automation at the interface between the customer and the digital factory. The software analyzes designs and provides instant feedback on manufacturability and price. Plethora’s end-to-end software automation is designed to free human minds, both from CAM programming and from front-end tasks associated with quoting and negotiating design issues.Also in this issue of 91视频网站污: