Research & Reference
Supporting analysis for CloudNC's growth round. Each page is self-contained and independently sourced.
A CNC machine takes a solid block of metal and carves it into a precision part. Every part requires a unique program, written by a skilled machinist who needs roughly a decade of training. The global machinist workforce spends $100 billion per year on this cognitive work. Machines that cost half a million dollars sit idle while programmers work through the queue.
CloudNC automates the programming step. What is a CNC machine →
Watch a senior CloudNC machinist program the same part twice in Siemens NX. The first half is the manual workflow every shop in the world runs on every part today — click by click, tool by tool, parameter by parameter. The second half is the same job with CAM Assist enabled. The hundreds of manual decisions collapse into a handful of review steps, and the same programme comes out the other end.
For every hour a CNC machine spends cutting, a programmer spent roughly four hours writing the instructions. CAM Assist is what shrinks that ratio. What does CAM programming look like →