Irvine, CA (2002) - CGTech is pleased to announce the Technology Partnership with Polyplan Technologies, a leader of e-Manufacturing solutions for process design and validation and manufacturing know-how management. This technology partnership provides the companies’ mutual customer bases a wider range of tools to bridge the gap between engineering and manufacturing and improve the accuracy and efficiency of their manufacturing operations.
CGTech’s VERICUT® software will be integrated to the PolyCAPP™ suites of solutions. “The integration of VERICUT® to PolyCAPP™ will complement our e-MPI™ (e-Manufacturing Process Improvement™) offering by adding a detailed NC tool paths simulation perspective to our manufacturing process design and know-how management solution. Combined with our other validation tools, VERICUT® will enhance PolyCAPP™ users’ ability to design error free process plan the first time: this perfectly aligns with our fundamental goals”, says André Gosselin, Vice President of R&D at Polyplan Technologies.
“Our customers appreciate solutions that help take time off their production machining. Partnering with Polyplan Technologies enables our customers to link the software that accomplishes this goal with a system that bridges the gap between design solutions and production systems, and further streamline the product development process”, says Bill Hasenjaeger, Product Manager at CGTech.
VERICUT® simulates full 3D CNC machine tool movement in their material removal process to ensure their NC tool paths are accurate, error-free and optimized before being run on the machine tool.
PolyCAPP™ is a knowledge based system that focuses on the "how to manufacture" aspect of production, by capturing, storing, and re-using the company’s manufacturing know-how, and assisting manufacturing engineering personnel in their process design and validation tasks. With its PDM and ERP connectors, PolyCAPP™ offers the "Integration Bridge" between CAD/PDM and ERP/MRP Solutions. Consequently, changes are coordinated immediately and effectively between engineering and manufacturing.
About CGTech
CGTech is the developer ofVERICUT®, an advanced solids-based software program that interactively simulates the material removal process of an NC tool path and enables NC programmers to verify the accuracy and quality of the tool path without doing a manual prove-out. In business since 1988, CGTech has offices in the United States, UK, France, and Germany, and has resellers world-wide. VERICUT supports milling, drilling, turning, mill/turn, and EDM operations. Inefficient motion or programming errors that could potentially ruin the part, damage the fixture, or break the cutter can be corrected before the program is run on an NC machine tool. With VERICUT, manufacturers increase productivity, improve product quality, reduce NC programming time, improve the efficiency, reduce scrap and rework, increase safety, and provide a training tool for new programmers and machine tool operators.
VERICUT® also optimizes NC programs in order to achieve the most efficient CNC machining possible. Other benefits include improved surface finish quality and longer tool life. VERICUT® supports G-codes tool path files and native CAD/CAM files.
About Polyplan Technologies, Inc. Polyplan Technologies is a leader in the development and integration of manufacturing engineering software solutions and value added manufacturing know-how consulting services. While Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools address the "WHAT" of manufacturing and Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP or MRP) systems address the "WHEN", PolyCAPP™ focuses on the "HOW" aspect of production, by capturing, storing, and re-using the company’s manufacturing know-how. PolyCAPP™ is a Knowledge based system and an e-MPI™ (e-Manufacturing Process Improvement™) system designed to assist Manufacturing Engineering personnel in their process planning tasks. With its PDM and ERP Connectors, PolyCAPP™ offers the "Integration Bridge" between CAD/PDM and ERP/MRP/MES Solutions in order to speed up the product development cycle. PolyCAPP™ is therefore a key element of a federated e-PLM (e-Product Lifecycle Management) System.
Airbus is selling so well that the demand to increase build rate has never been higher. BAE Systems (Filton, UK) needed a simple way to improve throughput - it found the answer in VERICUT.
With VERICUT, engineers at Stellex Monitor modeled the Sidewinder and Spar Mill machines.
Tell Tool of Westfield, Mass., has integrated VERICUT CNC simulation software into its numerical control program prove-out process.
VERICUT enabled us to start ordinary production after a minimum of time. Since this product is new for Volvo Aero Norge and our company had never before had parts with similar machining complexity, it is difficult to estimate the amount of cost saving.
Before implementing VERICUT, the company experienced the usual time-consuming and expensive manufacturing problems related to NC program prove-outs such as scrap loss, broken tooling, and a danger of occasional machine crash.
Over the last two years, AH has used Machine Simulation to speed the implementation of several new 5-axis machine tools.
VERICUT showed the NC programmers leftover or heavy stock." And the software detected a couple of places where the depth of cut was too large and tools were shanking out," said Collings. They then went back and corrected the errors in the tool path before
Dassault, Seclin initially purchased VERICUT in order to reduce the number of manual prove-outs using polystyrene material, which represented a significant expense in terms of time and money.
VERICUT enabled the designers and programmers see exactly what they were building as and in-process model in different stages of the machining cycle.
We utilized VERICUT to verify the CNC programs for cutting the tooling before they were sent to the machine control,
To protect their investment, they have been using VERICUT since 1996. They have two people to verify the accuracy of their G-code files.
"When we first started using OptiPath we concentrated on the feed rate option; now we use the constant chip thickness capability. With jobs up to 200 hours long, 50% saving is significant – like having another machine tool."
The entire process took less than two hours and no manpower was required, whereas, creating the same pattern manually (the old way), would have taken one of our designers several days.
The verification process stays ahead of the actual machine position in the NC code being verified. Opera-tors can see errors before they occur.
The bottom line? Using VERICUT has made Supreme's existing machine tools more productive. Enthusiasm is up, delivery times have been reduced, and pricing is more competitive.delivery times have been reduced, and pricing is more competitive.
Using VERICUT to compare the electrode burn with the mold cavity ensures that we have all the correct clearances in the electrodes and that we have 100% clean-up." says Allen.
If I was using VERICUT at the time I would've caught the problem, and had a chance to fix it before it damaged the part.
Now I rarely see the potential crashes because the students find and correct them before I review the work. Catching those costly problems is a non-event now!
VERICUT can change speeds and feeds according to cutting conditions including difference in material and tooling. It is done automatically; the programmer does not have to make even one manual insert into the code."
Flying shrapnel from shattered cutting tools and components is avoided by using VERICUT to test student programs before they are run on NC machines.
The NC programmers at Ingersoll also rely on the simulation software to prevent mistakes when programming complex, five-axis parts.
After creating the NC programs in Mastercam, they began simulating the machining process in VERICUT by simulating the G-code data. There often can be a difference between the motion as programmed and the code after it's run through the post processor
After selecting VERICUT for third-party verification, each NC programmer attended two days of basic training where they experienced first-hand the type of results they could expect to achieve.
The program simulates milling, drilling, turning, wire EDM, and mill/turn machining operations using both G-codes and CAM output.
VERICUT provides simulation capabilities for the all the 3-5 axis and wire EDM parts, with focused control over the orientation of our 5-axis machine tool including the cutters used on that machine.
The inspection probe is created as a tool in VERICUT so the complete in- cycle gauging sequence is checked for collisions.
The bottom was machined first. This effort took about 24 hours from start to finish. By using VERICUT software from CGTech, Elliot was able to test the NC program for any problems before it was ever cut on the machine.
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