... purchase of CAD/CAM software can be described as thus-: * Reduce non-productive time and conversely increase productive time. Time that would ordinarily be spent in programming the machine can be spent in actual production. * Potentially reduce requirements for skilled labour on each individual machine. There will, eventually, only be a requirement for one skilled man (to program and set the machines) and the rest of the operators can be unskilled. Their only requirement will be to press the "Start" button for each cycle. This will, however, present the need for an independent quality control to be implemented (if not already in place). Currently, a lot of companies have their operators check their own work for quality. This will be removed from the operator (thereby reducing more non-productive time) and handed to an unbiased quality controller. * The complexity of work is always being increased, as designers want more and more out of ...

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