Patent ID: 8340807

Claim:
A method to increase efficiency in the manufacture of a part using a CNC machine, the method comprising the steps of: a. establishing a database of information about a plurality of CNC machines available from a plurality of CNC machine manufacturers; b. gathering information about the part; c. incorporating the information about the part as a three-dimensional model into a CAD/CAM platform; d. integrating machine fixture and part geometry information together in the CAD/CAM platform; e. generating a process plan based on the integrating step; f. generating a model for the part applicable to each of the plurality of CNC machines of the database including Post codes for the CNC machines; and g. creating a rapid production technical data package for manufacture of the part by a particular manufacturer based on that particular manufacturer's manufacturing capabilities, wherein the technical data package includes Post codes for the operation of any selectable ones of the CNC machines of the database.