Summary
SPAM is a software package under development at Istituto di Ingegneria Meccanica of Firenze University, for application on standard minicomputers. It is devoted to provide a set of facilities for NC machine tools, in order to upgrade the degree of automation in manufacturing, mainly for small size factories.
SPAM programs allow:
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the production in a conversational way of the punched tape for the most part of commonly encountered turning problems in manufacturing of part families;
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the translation of a NC tape, written for a given control unit-machine tool system, in a tape compatible with a different machine language, in order to make easier, at workshop level, the swapping of metalworking among different NC machines. The software is now functioning between two programming languages of NC Italian firms;
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the solution of geometrical problems involved in bidimensional contouring;
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the verification and plotting of manually or automatically produced tapes.
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Bedini, R., Taglia, A.D., Toni, P. (1979). Spam: A Software Package Aiding the Manufacturing with NC Machine Tools. In: Davies, B.J. (eds) Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81412-1_11
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