精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Automated Manufacturing1.1 Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing(CAD/CAM)Throughout the history of our industrial society, many inventions have been patented and whole new technologies have evolved. Whitneys concept of interchangeable parts, Watts steam engine, and Fords assembly line are but a few developments that are most noteworthy during our industrial period . Each of these developments has impacted manufacturing as we know it, and has earne