What are the trends driving the CNC software market today?
‘Need for speed’ is one main driver that is driving the CNC software. Faster programming, faster machining and faster production. The population of CNC machines is growing at a very high rate, but the availability of skilled people to use these machines is not keeping pace. Manual CNC programming skills are becoming scarce. Competition is driving CNC machine buyers to cut costs of the machines that they buy. One of the ways is to avoid programming options on the controller and use CAD/CAM software instead. People want software that can do much more than just generate CNC programs. They want automatic tool selection, selection cutting parameters, cycle time calculation and generation of machining documents like process sheets.These factors are increasing the market for such software and deciding the design parameters of the next generation of CNC programming software. 2. In the past one-year did you feel a significant change among the Indian manufacturing industries in embracing the sop
