(Delcam plc: Birmingham, UK) -- Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products LLC (KAAP) has been able to reduce machining times and reduce hand finishing by switching to Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM system. The change produced savings both during programming and on the machine; the software that the company had been using was difficult to learn and produced programs that took too long to run.

“Switching to PowerMILL helped us reduce machining cycle times by 40 percent primarily because the rest-machining capabilities in its offset area-clearance strategies greatly reduce air-cutting time,” says Victor Steele, tool shop manager for KAAP. “Its optimized and interleaved constant-Z finishing strategy has improved surface finish to the point that manual finishing has been reduced by 50 percent. PowerMILL is also easier to learn with the result that new programmers can be trained in less than an hour.”

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