New Method for the Development of Sustainable STEP-Compliant Open CNC System

In the manufacturing sector, the CNC machine plays a significant role for the last five decade. In this paper, a new method for the development of sustainable CNC system based on OAC and STEP-NC technologies is introduced. OAC technology provides a reconfigurable, reusable software and hardware platform. The STEP-NC data interface model introduced flexibility, interoperability, adoptability and intelligence into the CNC. The system has been implemented on an old 3 axis CNC milling machine and found to be quite satisfactory in performance.