CAD/CAM in Practice: A Manager's Guide to Understanding and Using CAD/CAM

Little more than a decade ago computer-aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) was a very esoteric field indeed, not one that was of much practical concern to a manager or industrialist unless his business was on the scale of, say, a major automobile manufacturer or in a field of high technology such as aerospace. Like so much else, this situation was revolutionized by the invention of the silicon chip, the arrival of the micro­ processor and the dramatic fall in the cost of computer hardwar...