Users can interact with the software to evaluate possible machine tool designs.
To simulate the machine-tool's performance technical issues of both fundamental and pragmatic significance are being addressed. Many of the MT-AMRI universities are conducting parallel research in the different areas pertinent to the objectives of this project. The models developed so far will become a part of a comprehensive library whose entries will ultimately be used to compile the simulation model. The interrelationship between the models in the context of the closed loop model of the machining process is shown above. In the figure the machine tool is viewed as consisting of two general functional entities.