Patent Document ID: 9002501
Application ID: 13725288
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. 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 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 suitable for any of the plurality of CNC machines available from the plurality of CNC machine manufacturers; and f. 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 that are available to that particular manufacturer.