A system and method for making made-to-order architectural millwork of custom dimensions; including the design of wood joints and a system for deploying them within the overall structural design of individual architectural millwork units, as well as methods for online design and ordering, automated writing of machine code, robotic part preparation, and simplified on-site installation. With the automation and generation of digital code for manufacturing custom architectural components, this method makes the formation of distributed manufacturing centers possible. Through this method and with minimum re-tooling and/or training, these centers are able to produce custom millwork more efficiently and effectively than traditional custom millwork woodshops.

Methods involving adding a removable fixating material to a partially manufactured workpiece to stabilize a plurality of partially formed objects therein for subsequent manufacturing. In one example, a workpiece of interconnected structures is manufactured comprising precursors to the discrete objects as a function of a workpiece computer model. Manufacturing the workpiece further includes forming valleys between adjacent partially formed objects so that interconnecting portions remain to interconnect the partially formed objects. Further, the methods include removing the interconnecting portions so as to liberate the plurality of objects from one another. In some embodiments, a temporary frame is formed from the workpiece along with the plurality of objects during manufacturing.

A mold machining method using an endmill, the contour of a cross section of the mold being concave and continuous in an area, a ratio of the maximum to the minimum of radius of curvature of the contour of a portion of the area (a first area) being 2 or greater, and a blade of the endmill having a second area where the contour of a cross section is similar to the contour of the first area, the method comprising the steps of determining a spiral path of the endmill such that each point of the first area is machined by a portion of the second area, corresponding to said each point in the similarity, and a radial interval between the spiral tool path is maximized while keeping surface roughness of the machined mold at or below a predetermined value; and machining the mold along the path.

A computerized method of machining a workpiece including, prior to machining the workpiece, establishing, based on empirical data obtained from machining activity at an earlier time, an historical mapping indicating pairings of depth of cut and rpm at which undesirable chatter (UDC) did not occur during machining activity at an earlier time using at least one given type of milling machine, at least one given type of cutting tool and at least one given type of workpiece material, prior to commencing machining of the workpiece, programming a machine tool to machine the workpiece using a given type of milling machine, a given type of cutting tool and a given type of workpiece material at at least one depth of cut and rpm, which, based on the historical mapping, avoid UDC and operating the machine tool in accordance with the programming to machine the workpiece.

A method and software is provided for machining a workpiece, including for determining a machining path for material-removing machining of a workpiece using a multi-axis machine tool, wherein control commands for controlling a number of N different machine axes of a machine tool can be generated from the machining path with computer support, according to which a tool can be moved continuously along the machining path, wherein the machining path comprises a first engagement path segment and a second engagement path segment along which the tool engages with the workpiece at least in sections, and wherein the machining path further comprises a connecting path segment along which the tool does not engage with the workpiece and which connects an end point of the first engagement path segment to a starting point of the second engagement path segment continuously and collision-free with the workpiece.

A system and method for making made-to-order architectural millwork of custom dimensions; including the design of wood joints and a system for deploying them within the overall structural design of individual architectural millwork units, as well as methods for online design and ordering, automated writing of machine code, robotic part preparation, and simplified on-site installation. With the automation and generation of digital code for manufacturing custom architectural components, this method makes the formation of distributed manufacturing centers possible. Through this method and with minimum re-tooling and/or training, these centers are able to produce custom millwork more efficiently and effectively than traditional custom millwork woodshops.

The present invention is a rapid pill canister adapter production system which provides a machine which will accept as input the details of a certain pill or tablet, such as its shape, size, weight and the like and produce a part for use within the pill canister of an automatic pill dispenser to properly line up the pills for dispensing. Once designed and verified, the device would rapidly produce the part for immediate use by the pharmacy. This would enable pharmacies to install new medications into their automatic pill dispensers with very minimal delay.

A computerized method of machining a workpiece including, prior to machining the workpiece, establishing, based on empirical data obtained from machining activity at an earlier time, an historical mapping indicating pairings of depth of cut and rpm at which undesirable chatter (UDC) did not occur during machining activity at an earlier time using at least one given type of milling machine, at least one given type of cutting tool and at least one given type of workpiece material, prior to commencing machining of the workpiece, programming a machine tool to machine the workpiece using a given type of milling machine, a given type of cutting tool and a given type of workpiece material at at least one depth of cut and rpm, which, based on the historical mapping, avoid UDC and operating the machine tool in accordance with the programming to machine the workpiece.

A method for automatically adapting an adaptable process parameter of a tooling machine, the tooling machine being part of a first or second manufacturing process for physically processing input work pieces into output work pieces. According to the method, at least one geometric feature of an output work piece is measured by a coordinate measuring machine, the geometric feature being a direct or indirect result of the processing with the tool. The measurement result is together with nominal measurement data of the geometric feature fed into a deterministic digital simulation of at least a part of the manufacturing process with a digital model such as a digital twin of the tooling machine and modelled process parameters, therein the adaptable process parameter of the tooling machine, simulating at least a deterministic behavior of the tooling machine relevant for an operation of its tool.

A method for predicting a remaining life of a tool of a computer numerical control machine is provided. In the method, indirect measurement indicators of the tool are selected based on monitoring and analyzing a current state of the tool, a prediction model for the remaining life of the tool is established based on data de-noising, feature extraction and a multi-kernel W-LSSVM algorithm. Thereby, a method for predicting a remaining life of a tool of a computer numerical control machine is provided.