Eye on Integration (CAD/CAM Systems)

The big picture

"A well-designed CAD/CAM system should be the heart of … each manufacturing operation," insists Kevin Carey, editor of DieInfo Magazine. He emphasizes the importance of information gathering to the improvement of the entire converting process: "Each production job requires information at each stage to proceed, each process will generate new or update existing information, and this accumulated knowledge will roll through the process, making each task easier to execute."