Computer Numerical Control (CNC) is a system in where
computer numerical control codes determine machining and sizing process of a
work piece. Today, most of the products in manufacturing sector are produced by
CNC lathes. Therefore, CNC lathes are indispensable parts of the manufacturing
sector. In order to bring up operators who use CNC lathes, related courses are
offered in our educational institutes. In different vocational high schools,
faculties and vocational college, some knowledge such as basic lathe system,
lathe usage, lathe programming, way of thinking three dimensional and work
piece machining are offered to students who are candidates of being employed in
this sector with the aim of reliable, effective and correct usage of these
sensitive lathes that are so important for manufacturing. But, these learnings
will be permanent and education will reach the target if and only if
theoretical knowledge is followed by practical training session. In this study
a training set that is low-cost, completely prepared in Turkish and educational
has been designed and manufactured (produced) for the students who are getting
CNC education. Training set consists of an electronics book that includes
theoretical knowledge, a multimedia environment that includes usage,
programming and structure of CNC, an editor that is used as programming
environment, a simulation environment where written program‘s results can be
viewed and a mini CNC lathe which has same functionality of original lathe and
has the capability of processing work piece. Combination of all these materials
made up training set and let the student to see the work piece from draft to
production.
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Publication Date | September 1, 2014 |
Published in Issue | Year 2014 Volume: 1 |