CAD/CAM

in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing.

Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. CAD systems use a computer with terminals featuring video monitors and interactive graphics-input devices to design such things as machine parts, patterns for clothing, or integrated circuits. CAM systems use numerically controlled (see numerical control) machine tools and high-performance programmable industrial robots. Drawings developed during the design process are converted directly into instructions for the production machines, thus optimizing consistency between design and finished product, and providing flexibility in altering machine operations. These two processes are sometimes grouped as CAE (computer-aided engineering).

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Computer-aided- or computer-assisted- is a prefix that hints to the use of a computer as an indispensable tool in a certain field, usually derived from more traditional fields of science and engineering. Instead of the prefix computer aided or computer-assisted, in some cases the suffix management system is used.

Engineering and production

• Computer-aided design
• Computer-aided architectural design
• Computer-aided industrial design
• Electronic and electrical computer-aided design
• computer-aided garden design
• Computer-aided drafting
• Computer-aided engineering
• Computer-aided production engineering
• Computer-aided manufacturing
• Computer-aided quality
• Computer-aided maintenance

Music and arts

• Computer-Aided Algorithmic Composition
• Computer assisted painting

Human languages

• Computer-aided translation

Medicine

• Computer-assisted detection
• Computer-aided diagnosis
• Computer-aided tomography
• Computer-assisted orthopedic surgery
• Computer-assisted sperm analysis

Software engineering

• Computer-aided software engineering

Traffic control

• Computer-assisted dispatch

Teaching

• Computer assisted instruction
• Computer assisted learning better known as computer-based learning
• Computer-assisted language learning
• Computer-assisted assessment

Mathematics

• Computer-assisted proof

Economy

• Computer Assisted Auditing Techniques
• Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal

Communications

• Computer-assisted personal interviewing
• Computer-assisted telephone interviewing
• Computer-assisted reporting

Security

• Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System

Entertainment

• Computer-assisted gaming
• computer-assisted role-playing game