Software

How To Automate Your Shop

A fully integrated shop management system will help attract new customers, deal with constant change and manufacture more cost effectively.

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CAD/CAM

Cutting The Cost Of Casting With CAM System

About the time this company's products were getting more complex, they undertook a major re-engineering process directed at increasing productivity. CAM software played a big role in achieve their objectives.

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Linear Motors On Multis

A primary objective for multi-spindle screw machines, or any metalcutting machine tool, is to accurately and rapidly deliver a cutting tool to a workpiece while precisely controlling its cutting action.

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Getting A Handle On Operational Data

This shop looked at shop control software demonstrations from six vendors. They eventually decided to install 17 networked PCs with Windows 95 software plus this shop management program.

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Swiss-Types

CAM Selection Criteria For Your Swiss-type

Programming complex Swiss-type lathes is simplified with a good CAM purchase. Here are some questions you should ask your vendor.

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Estimating Software Yields Higher Profits

Until early 1999, the shop quoted all its jobs using an Excel program developed in-house. Then, they began to use an engineering-based estimating program that provided more accurate representations of actual operating costs.

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HCL CAMWorks
ProShop
Nomura DS
Marubeni Citizen CNC
Star swiss-type automatic lathes
Techspex
World Machine Tool Survey
Kyocera
ProShop