(What fools the Japanese are, selling us all those numerically controlled machine tools.)
N. C. stands for Numerically Controlled, he said, because the club was designed on a computer.
If industry was equipped with more computer aids such as numerically controlled machines and robots, production per man/woman employed could be even further increased.
MTConnect is a manufacturing industry standard to facilitate the organized retrieval of process information from numerically controlled machine tools.
More directly, when it comes to machining centers and numerically controlled lathes, Japanese products are in no way technologically superior.
Soviet commercial acquisition of other major technologies, such as numerically controlled machine tools and offshore oil drilling has been relatively late.
APT is a language and system that makes numerically controlled manufacturing possible.
In the first place the penetration of robots, numerically controlled machine tools, and other microelectronic-based equipment in British industry is as yet very limited.
Estimates suggest that little more than 5 per cent of the stock of machine tools were numerically controlled.
There was considerable public interest in the increasing sophistication of numerically controlled machine tools.