Method and system for processing machine data before completion of machining

A system comprising:

• one or more computers programmed to generate a Numerical Control (NC) program to (i) manufacture a part using a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine and (ii) to provide output data related to the manufacturing of the part in a detected output format of the CNC machine;
• and
• the CNC machine configured to run the NC program, wherein instructions of the NC program cause the CNC machine to manufacture the part and to provide the output data;
• wherein the CNC machine comprises one or more storage devices encoding instructions of an additional computer program that runs on the CNC machine, parses, based on the detected output format of the CNC machine, the output data before completion of the manufacturing of the part by the CNC machine in accordance with the instructions of the NC program, selects a set of data from the parsed output data based on one or more predetermined parameters, and provides the set of data to a computer remote from the CNC machine for processing to facilitate machining using the CNC machine, and
• wherein the CNC machine is caused to output the output data by output commands inserted into the NC program by the one or more computers programmed to generate the NC program, the output commands including identifiers that (i) appear in the output data and (ii) are used to match specific output data to exact locations within an internal data structure of the one or more computers that generated the output commands;
• and wherein the selection comprises selection of the set of data from the parsed output data in accordance with requested data included in the output data responsive to the output commands inserted into the NC program by the one or more computers programmed to generate the NC program.