Suk-Hwan Suh is a professor within the School of Industrial Engineering at POSTECH. He has been a project analyst for the Hyundai Motor Company and worked in various universities in the USA, France and Australia. His research interests are unbiquitous manufacturing and management for extended product life cycle; international standard information technology global cooperation & conformance; and e-manufacturing for STEP-NC, intelligent shop floor, MES, ERP. Seong-Kyoon Kang currently works for K&S International Patents in Seoul. Dae-Hyuk Chung is based in Changwon, Korea, working for Doosan Infracore, Ltd. Dr Ian Stroud is first assistant at the Laboratoire des outils Informatiques por la Conception et la Production en mecanique at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne.

• Principles and NCK Design of CNC Systems.- to NC Systems.- Interpreter.- Interpolator.- Acceleration and Deceleration.- PID Control System.- Numerical Control Kernel.- Open-architectural Soft CNC Systems.- Programmable Logic Control.- Man–Machine Interface.- CNC Architecture Design.- Design of PC-NC and Open CNC.- STEP-NC System.

From the reviews: "Based on numerous new references and on own experience, the authors present this reference work in the field of Computerized Numerical Control (CNC). ... a good guide for all specialists and students interested in the design and exploitation of CNC systems." (Sergiu T. Chiriacescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1166, 2009)