4. Conclusion

By taking advantage of technological advances, CAM activities have been able to evolve with design/manufacturing environments to remain an essential node. The emergence of new families of numerically controlled processes has increased the range of possible solutions, reinforcing the need for integrated, coherent design/manufacturing environments throughout the product development cycle. While the core activity of CAM software remains process planning and the generation of manufacturing trajectories, it is constantly evolving to cope with the increasing complexity of the tasks to be carried out.