I don't know much about industry 4.0 but I know a lot of things are going towards automation and some people have even told me that CMM's are old technology that is basically obsolete.
(We just had a brand new machine installed within the last few weeks so I can confirm they are not obsolete)
I don't think CMM programmers are going anywhere for at least 30 years.
I have been doing this for around 8 years, and the process really hasn't changed at all since then.
We cant even get Hexagon to add a function to change a program from inches to MM.... (I'm not bitter about that at all lol)
I was thinking the same thing. CMM programmers aren't going anywhere & CMM will still be relevant piece for a long time unless machine builders will find a way to merge CNC & CMM in one package. If 4.0 is about automation & data then it missies one important point in the whole equation. It boils down to make the good part & check it right. Boatload of data & automation won't change that paradigm.
I'll start off by saying I don't know much about this 4.0 stuff but is it just me or does it feel like working towards fully automated cmms seems far away. Too many settings, too many variables, too many errors. Imagine how many crashes there will be. Its great in theory but sounds like a lot of investment and money just to replace someone you can actually hold accountable if issues do arise. I'm all for making things easier but programming is complex even though people just think we are glorified button pushers.
I was thinking along same lines. Like driverless cars. Nice in theory but hard in practice. The fact is VW & Ford had abandoned their driverless JV & nothing coming out of the silicon valley says it all. And indeed the more complex something is the more stuff that can go wrong. Latest pc dmis versions (we have 2020R2 & initially had 2021 R1 but went to 2020R2 at the new cmm) are far buggier than 2016 one we have at the 20 year old TTP cmm I'm running now.
