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computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
The automation of manufacturing systems and techniques, including the use of computers to communicate work instructions to automate machinery for the handling of the processing (numerical control, process control, robotics, material requirements planning) needed to produce a workpiece. See also computer-aided design.
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