Machine Capability

What the machine tool in the loop can actually deliver, and what happens when a cut asks for more than that. Every ceiling here belongs to the equipment executing the cut, and none of them is visible in the NC program.

Ordered by what the ceiling belongs to — the spindle first, then the controller and the NC toolchain feeding it.

Spindle

• Spindle Capability — Duration-keyed boundary curves, the thermal envelope, and the denominators behind the four torque and power ratios
• Spindle Power Evaluation — Empirical validation of the simulated spindle power against measured Fanuc ServoGuide TCMD data

Controller and NC Toolchain

• CAM Floating-Point Drift — Sub-micron layer-to-layer drift in CAM output meeting a genuinely sub-micron floor-contact sensitivity, and what to do when the NC cannot be changed

Condition of the Machine Itself

• Machine Condition and Safety Factors — Why the results hold only while every ratio stays under 100%, and how a worn machine is described to the optimizer

See Also

• Milling Physics — the physics of the cut that runs into these ceilings
• NC Optimization — what the optimizer does with these ceilings once it knows them
• Simulation Performance — the other machine in the loop: what the workstation running the simulation can deliver
• Validation — the measurements these ceilings were calibrated and checked against