(Third Wave Systems: Minneapolis) -- During last week’s EMO 2011, the international trade fair for the machine tool industry held in Hannover, Germany, Third Wave Systems introduced current customers and members of the international press to its newest machining modeling capabilities: part distortion and tool deflection. The product has been under development for more than five years, and will be sold as an upgrade to the company’s NC program optimization software, Production Module, beginning in November of 2011.

Third Wave has been providing premier machining computer-aided engineering (CAE) products and services to some of the world’s leading manufacturers for more than 15 years. Its most well-known product, AdvantEdge FEM, is finite element analysis software developed specifically to model material behavior during metal cutting processes such as drilling, milling, grooving, and turning. The same material models used for this finite element analysis are also incorporated into Production Module, Third Wave’s CAE software that provides a more comprehensive, transformative solution for tool-path analysis and optimization.

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