In the present manufacturing industry, Lead time is a major challenge for most of the OEMs and most of it comes from design to manufacturing of a product. Nevertheless to say, heavy infrastructure investment is also needed based on the product line. The conventional machines are already replaced by CNC machines in many OEMs to meet the expected market demand. However, there is still scope for further Automation of CNC Program Generation Automation of CNC Program Generation 1 © 2016, Quest Global Services 2 improvement in terms of Design & Manufacturing integrations, automated CNC tool path generation, automated post processor customization, automated NC code generation, etc which will cut down the product launch time tremendously