Initially the project was developed to help teachers to introdue CAD CAM into the school curriculum and has been successful in providing support for teachers, and teachers in training, by focussing on specific resource based training needs. Many teachers have benefited from the range of projects that have been developed and share within the projects. Support from industrial partners for research into the application of CAD CAM within the curriculum has enabled trainees to develop projects to Key Stages three and four. The Partnerships Project has enabled these ideas to be disseminated of across the country and for projects developed in schools to be shared with other teachers. Above all, it is pleasing to see CNC machines that were once standing idle being used in a variety of applications.

The philosophy used has been to move away from the CNC project, the infamous chess or cruet sets and to integrate the use of CNC equipment into the manufacturing process of design and make projects. This has helped to eliminate some of the management problems such as the 'bottlenecks' caused by pupils queing to use a limited number of machines and encourages a more creative responce to projects briefs.