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A roadmap for implementing new manufacturing technology based on STEP-NC

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Manufacturing is changing. New ideas of control, the maturity of CAM techniques and computer technology have enabled the definition of an advanced machine tool control standard, STEP-NC. STEP-NC is one part of a larger manufacturing picture with links to different manufacturing applications using the STEP suite of standards. STEP-NC is the key to a door behind which there is a rich field of research on manufacturing techniques and opportunities for lean, intelligent and flexible manufacturing. The problem is to pass through that door. Many potential users are waiting for a lead from control developers. Control developers are waiting for market interest. Existing legacy machinery and investment in traditional machining add inertia. Instead of having a clear development path, manufacturing has become something of a Gordian knot waiting to be disentangled. New research projects are addressing these issues as well, but this paper takes a different route in showing how strategic planning can lead to adoption of the new techniques in a phased way, a so-called ‘Roadmap’. The contribution of this paper is the manner in which the overall task of implementation has been subdivided into tasks and phases to achieve the introduction of the new technology.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the help of collaborators at POSTECH, Ecole Centrale de Nantes and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne for help. This research was supported by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) grant funded by the Korea Government (Ministry of Trade Industry and Energy, MOTIE) (No. H2001-13-1001) and partly supported by the International Research & Development Program funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning of Korea (Grant number: 2013063385).

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  1. Industrial and Management Engineering Department, POSTECH, San 31, Pohang, 790-784, Korea

    Jae-Min Cha

  2. Center for Ubiquitous Manufacturing, Graduate School of Engineering Mastership (GEM), POSTECH, San 31, Pohang, 790-784, Korea

    Suk-Hwan Suh

  3. IRCCyN, Ecole Centrale Nantes, 1, Rue de la Noé, BP 92 101, 44321 , Nantes Cedex 03, France

    Jean-Yves Hascoet

  4. EPFL, STI-IPR-LICP, Station 9, 1015 , Lausanne, Switzerland

    Ian Stroud

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Cha, JM., Suh, SH., Hascoet, JY. et al. A roadmap for implementing new manufacturing technology based on STEP-NC. J Intell Manuf 27, 959–973 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-014-0927-2

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