CyberCut: A Networked Manufacturing Service

将领先的产品比竞争对手更快地推向市场，是国家制造企业关注的一个关键问题。相应地，许多“在互联网上”的设计师很快就想要“独一无二”的机械原型或小批量零件，以便在新的“高科技”产品的早期概念阶段进行可视化和实验。这笔拨款将用于建立一个“实验性制造测试平台”，用于互联网访问，称为“CyberCut”的计算机加工服务。客户设计人员将能够创建机械部件，从他们选择的CAD系统开始，并将适当的文件提交到伯克利的服务器进行工艺规划。“CyberCut”将利用伯克利现有的开放式计算机加工工具进行制造。快速的刀具路径规划、新颖的夹具技术和基于传感器的精密加工技术将使原始设计者能够交付具有高强度和紧密公差的部件。，±0.00英寸（0.05mm）}。“CyberCut”将首先由卡内基梅隆大学、斯坦福大学和伊利诺斯州MTAMRI的大学合作者使用。也有一些情况下，设计有一个复杂的形状，不能通过机械加工原型。其他“固体自由形式”技术将需要对下游原型实现进行评估。将开发一个“制造分析服务”，将评估通过立体光刻或选择性激光烧结制造的设计。工业合作伙伴，Metalcast Engineering和Plynetics将用于这些扩展服务。

Getting leading-edge products to market faster than one's competition, is a key concern of the Nation's manufacturing enterprises. Correspondingly, many designers "out there on the Interned" quickly want "one-of-a-kind" mechanical prototypes or small batches of parts, to visualize and experiment with during the early conceptual stages of a new "high-tech" product. This grant will be used to build "an experimental fabrication testbed" for an Internet-accessible, computerized machining service called "CyberCut". Client- designers will be able to create mechanical components, beginning with a CAD system of their choice, and submit appropriate files to the server at Berkeley for process planning. "CyberCut" will utilize an existing open-architecture, computerized machining tool at Berkeley for fabrication. Rapid tool-path planning, novel fixturing techniques, and sensor-based precision machining techniques will allow the original designer to take delivery of a component with a high-strength and tight-tolerance {e.g., +/- 0.00 inch (0.05mm)}. "CyberCut" will first be used by University collaborators at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and the MTAMRI at Illinois. There will also be some instances where the design has a complex shape that cannot be prototyped by machining. Other "Solid Free Form" technologies will then need to be evaluated for the downstream prototype realization. A "Manufacturing Analysis Service" will be developed that will evaluate the design for fabrication by Stereolithography or Selective Laser Sintering. Industrial collaborators, Metalcast Engineering and Plynetics will be used for these extended services.