Is AI the Future of CNC Programming? | Machine Shop Talk Ep.105

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What if you could get your CAM program finished 80% of the way, with only a single click of a button? Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?
Remarkably, ‪@TeamCloudNC‬ has taken this lofty promise and is delivering each and every single day with their new CAM Assist plugin for Mastercam and Fusion, and Ian Sandusky from Lakewood Machine & Tool is here to take it for a test drive! Much like automation on the floor is aimed at taking the repetitive, mindless work out of the human hands to free staff up to do more productive and meaningful work, CAM Assist from CloudNC is bringing that same approach to the production bottleneck of CAM programming. With just one click of the CAM Assist button, CloudNC uses the power of AI to generate a program that is at least 80% of the way ready to make chips, usually only needing human interaction to verify things like speeds & feeds and to double-check the approach.
Have you tried integrating AI or CloudNC into your workflow? Let us know in the comments below!
And if you want to try CloudNC for free, here's where you can find it"
Fusion 360: www.cloudnc.com/cam-assist/fu...
Mastercam (beta): www.cloudnc.com/cam-assist/ma...
Siemens NX (beta): www.cloudnc.com/cam-assist/si...
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Instagram: / team_cloudnc
Twitter: / teamcloudnc
LinkedIn: / cloudnc
RU-vid: ‪@TeamCloudNC‬
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@ArikaStack

I'm a machinist of 10 years. I left the industry to pursue other things, and the burnout was stopping me from simply doing it in my freetime. A year ago, I said AI would come to shops in some form within 2 years, and you'll be able to put a CAD file and stock into a machine, and it will offset, angular workshift, generate a program that won't crash, and pick the proper tooling based on the tolerances and material. In 5 years, I'm willing to wager you won't even need a CAD file anymore. Alot of machinists think they're immune to AI. They have alot of immunity, true, but they aren't, and they're looking at it wrong. No, your job won't be reduced to a machine's lackey, at least eventually it won't. Okuma's view on automation is not the future. Your job will be, if you're lucky, a teacher of sorts for AI. Yes, AI will replace prototyping and lean jobs. Your job, isn't under fire yet due to the costs, and when it will be, AI would have replaced so many aspects of the workforce that we'll need to look into radical solutions, quick.

@OtisFlint

AI is the future of everything, it's only a matter of how long it's going to take.

@markkeating3609

it will be a little while. we have a AI cnc mill currently in the shop. Now this is one company, but so far very limited, not the greatest programs, and tolerances very suspect. I'm sure in one way or another it will no doubt be a big factor in the future, but as a programmer currently i'm not threatened by what i see to date. And that could change in a minute with technology obviously. But i remember being intimidated by 3d printing, thinking this may be the end of the toolmaker. That was a while back, and that fear has been gone for a while now. Right now, alot of what we got for our $ was snake oil in terms of AI programming.

@jamesharrison5004

CNC programming via AI should be a relatively easy thing to do. The programme knows the shape, it knows the stock size, the material, the machine and what tools are available.

@Lwimmermastermetalart

When CNC came out everyone did say it would eliminate jobs. However when I first started to purchase I grew and hired more ppl. Problem today is there simply aren’t enough good ppl in the trade. Why we HAVE to rely on technology to keep producing affordable parts. AND to keep work here rather than China

@iloidi

It seems like a good solution! It is a product that requires a long learning curve, but nowadays a good mix of macros and templates can standarize and optimize your processes and eliminate many "silly clicks"

@derekfriedrichs

It’s not there yet. But it’s coming. Can you say minimum wage…I test drove CAMASSIST yesterday and while it’s no where near being helpful today, it will be soon. I prefer to use 2D adaptive roughing. Right now there’s no option for that. Everything is 3D. It’s coming though. I can’t emphasize that enough.

@MRunar007

hope it get opensource version out after some time

@kubetail12

What I notice at my workplace is that CAM programmers like to do things their own way and sort of don't get along to the extent that I consider it a bit toxic. My company would want engineers to build our own version of CAM Assist in addition too our daily duties, then it ends up in the pile of things might work if we could just hire that one engineer who knows something no one else does.

@rapturefox7068

Been a machinist for one month. 12.5 hour shifts. Mandatory overtime. Hardinge and Mazak. I freaking love love it!! I should’ve done this 20 years ago. I have cybersecurity training and coding so the G and M code is so easy and caveman could do it

@ArthurField

Ian, man, I love the possibilities this opens up for machine shops. It makes me also think of the possibilities with quoting jobs and reducing the turn around time on an RFQ. I agree with your comments about finding the benefits and everything you said about the taking jobs mentality. I've been to shops and worked in shops that avoided cnc for 30 years for the same mentality, and the end result was them closing their doors.

@lasgusgeras3766

I am currently introducing fusion, auto tooling, smart library to my manufacturing team using AI to analyze KPIs and OEE, create macros and much more.

@timmontano8792

I was self-taught in CNC programming. When I was traversing the learning curve, I would have loved to have had a software like this. It would have made learning much easier for me.

@2_dimes

In my industry, we prodeduce approximately 1500 custom programs per shift.

@JClaytonWaltersIII

This is amazing!

@crazytrutas

This is great. Thanks for the video man.

@jasonruch3529

Anytime you can cut setup with programming time you have a big win😊

@nutela6868

I haven't been programming for long. When I was 18-19 I was still writing G code at Work and now with Fusion programming is easier than ever but AI is the new level, I'm sure

@heliarcweldandmachine

i can finally get into cnc ! great video mate

@jimgourgoutis

Thanks for the great video! I am really curious to learn about how they got the training data for the machine learning models? Did they program (thousands?) of parts themselves, or did they get it elsewhere, or??? Also, I work in an ITAR shop and sending our parts into the cloud would be a big no-no -- do they have an on-site hosted solution in the works? Thanks!