Die sinking

A special case of machining in multiple stations is “die sinking” (see FCT-C44]. Here, a commanding channel, i.e. the down channel, uses the Job Manager to supply two agent channels, i.e. the orbit channel and the escape channel, with coordinated NC programs.
A special feature of this application is that a resulting 3-dimensional movement is created by superimposing the 2-dimensional movements of the down channel and orbit channel. The escape channel also superimposes the movements of the down channel.

The job commanded in the commanding channel corresponds to a “workpiece job”.