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1992

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing

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A Machine Entity For A Coordinate Measurement Machine : The Generic Workcell Project, Richard C. Meyer Jan 1992

A Machine Entity For A Coordinate Measurement Machine : The Generic Workcell Project, Richard C. Meyer

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The Center for Manufacturing Systems (CMS) department at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Siemens Corporate Research located in Princeton have agreed to jointly implement a research project in generic workcell control architectures. This paper discusses the module, called a Machine Entity, developed by the author that interfaces the Brown & Sharpe Coordinate Measurement Machine located on the CMS factory floor with the cell control software. The module has been designed in such a manner to simplify the development of future Machine Entities, thereby reducing the time required to integrate the CMS factory floor.