Development of postprocessors for CNC "Axiom Control"

BACKGROUND: Currently, the issue of using means of automation in various ways is widely studied in the worldwide industry. Use of the automatized systems at various stages of manufacturing leads to significant increase of labor productivity in various indicators and ensures solution of multiple problems related to cost reduction during manufacturing, increase of equipment performance and increase of quality of final products. AIM: Formalization of the process of development of the control program for the CNC by means of creation of the postprocessors for the AksiOMA Control CNC. METHODS: Key objects of study and interaction during operation are various means of automation (computer-aided design and the software which is necessary for work with postprocessors) necessary for development of products and describing the technology of machining of them with the consequent postprocessing to obtain the control program. RESULTS: The result of the study is the development of the postprocessors for the consequent postprocessing of the control program has begun on the basis of the problem related to the development of the postprocessor for the AksiOMA Control CNC. In the manual of the CNC programmer, the base notation about the language syntax, control commands for the machining station and the CNC is given. The decision to begin the development of the postprocessor for the three-axial machining by means of editing the Siemens 840 basic postprocessor is made, because the control program syntax of it was similar to the syntax of the AksiOMA Control CNC system. CONCLUSION: As the result of the conducted study, the role of the automatized systems in the process of design and development of control programs was considered. For solving the problem of the development of the postprocessors for the AksiOMA Control CNC, the IMSpost package for automatized postprocessor development was chosen.