Industrial Factory Automation

Geometric Technologies will showcase the latest releases of CAMworks and DFMpro at Metav 2010, in Dusseldorf Trade Fair Centre, Germany, from 23-27 February, 2010. 'CAMworks is seamlessly integrated within the Solidworks platform and enables intelligence and automation in design, as well as manufacturing processes,' said Robert Hutter, director, product sales. 'DFMpro facilitates upstream manufacturability validation and identification of areas in design that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture. He added: 'CAMworks and DFMpro together provide an integrated solution for manufacturing companies looking for ways to reduce cost and time to market, while also improving the quality of manufactured parts. CAMworks 2010 has over 50 new features and advancements for machining faster and more accurately. This release also includes advances in three-axis functionality, as well as new features and cutting strategies for two- to five-axis milling, turning and wire...

CAMWorks , a solids-based computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) solution from Geometric, has reduced engineering and CNC programming times for Magnus Hi-Tech Industries, a precision fabricator. Magnus Hi-Tech provides fabrication solutions for customers in the defence, aerospace and medical fields. Using advanced sheet-metal fabrication and machining technology, Magnus offers a range of products, including holding brackets, complex components for military simulators, housings, struts, mounting blocks, impellers and military chassis. The company recently started using the Mazak five-axis CNC milling machine to reduce changeover times and machine downtime and realised that the CAM software being used was not letting it take full advantage of the milling machine. Magnus decided that it needed an application that was compatible with the Solidworks platform that it uses. The company selected Geometric's CAMWorks, which features tools to simplify and automate complex programming tasks, spee...