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Thirty years ago, hard wired NC tools became CNC, due to the development of small inexpensive programmable computers. Fujitsu Fanuc Ltd introduced the first computer-based control system in 1972 and generated a step change in the evolution of machining centres.

Affordable CNC technology enabled a much wider range of engineering companies to invest in the features and benefits of program storage, tool offset and tool compensation, program-editing capability, various degrees of computation, and the ability to send and receive data from a variety of sources, including remote locations.

The significance of CNC is recognised at The National Museum of Science and Industry, London, where there is an impressive presentation of Fanuc CNC showing a 6-TB control system fitted to a Colchester lathe.

Today the Fanuc company is a world leader in the development of CNC for machine tools and robotics that have become indispensable for the production of almost all industrial products.

The latest GE Fanuc technology, such as total digitisation, has been designed to make full use of all areas of communications technology. An Ethernet port is included as standard on the main board of the new i series model B CNC, which can serve various data to many PCs simultaneously at high speeds. It is suitable for production systems where many machine tools and factory-based computers need to exchange data.

Machine status and reports of running results can be displayed. Maintenance information can even be transmitted to remote service centres over the Internet using "Remote Diagnosis Package".

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