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The Expert CAD/CAM system was initiated at DIECRAFT Australia in 1980s. Diecraft has a long history as a world class toolroom.
Mill Expert was developed at Diecraft for the automatic machining of Tupperware injection moulds, large and small die plates, unit parts and outriggers. ,Said Graham Malcolm, the DIECRAFT production services manager at that time, "The system covers all mould frame manufacturing. The programming time is cut by 90 percent. The quality of part programs is superb, programs go into unmanned machining without a trial run. The multi-pallet machining centre is working non stop and it works unattended during night shifts and weekends." STS-Camtek Mill Expert was adapted at Fisher & Paykel Production Machinery division (NZ) and is covering all their production CAM requirements for more than 10 years by now.
Expert feature oriented CAM solutions were revolutionary for the time and other CAM developers around the world are only now getting close to the level of automation CAMTEK PACIFIC was delivering 20 years ago.
More recently STS-Camtek’s Mill Expert solutions have developed further into Knowledge Based Expert CAD/CAM Applications. Today STS-Camtek’s Knowledge Based Expert Applications are used by companies, big and small, manufacturing automotive components, hydraulic and pneumatic manifolds, furniture and kitchen cabinets, special seals, plastic tools, die cutters, millturn parts.
STS-Camtek is currently seeking business opportunities for introducing it's Expert CAD/CAM Applications to other industry sectors and widening its usage in existing ones.
*** Any machining processes that could benefit from higher levels of automation, reliability and assured quality by using Expert CAD/CAM Applications are our prime targets.
STS Camtek’s Expert CAD/CAM Applications deliver efficient, affordable manufacturing solutions.
Following the initial R&D Phase of each customer’s project, typically there are six parts needed to create the final solution:
- Part(s) Data Input: CAD drawings, CAD models, list of materials or a spreadsheet.
- The library of manufacturing parts and Feature Definitions.
- The Data Base of Part Materials, Cutting Tools and Cutting parameters.
- Machining methods including the Customers Specialised manufacturing know-how.
- The Expert CAD/CAM Application Software.
- The library of 100% perfect post processors.
How STS Camtek’s Expert CAD/CAM Applications work:
Once the boundaries and substance of the relevant manufacturing process are understood, the "Knowledge Base", or underlying database, is agreed and developed. During the R&D stage all factors that impact on the machining technology requirement are established, quantified and entered as fundamental data.
This data can subsequently be edited, modified, extended or deleted as necessary with the acquisition of further knowledge over time.
The Machining Procedure Generator is where decisions are made on the fly using the Knowledge Base, together with a number of industry specific criteria and user variable inputs that impact on the successful outcome of a manufacturing process.
The Expert CNC code generated applies the company's proven machining methods and is suited 100% to the company's machinery. Rigorous decision making processes eliminate the human element and deliver manufactured parts of assured quality, automatically.
The factors used in decision making include: different product materials, their hardnesses and machinability, different cutting tool materials, their recommended strategies, stiffness, allowable stresses, expected deflections under varying load conditions, directions of cut, cutting speeds and feeds, need for and use of coolants of various types, etc.
Even under the trying and difficult conditions of "real world manufacturing", from only simple user inputs. STS-Camtek's Expert CAD/CAM Applications will deliver optimised best practice machining every time.
For an analysis of your Expert CAD/CAM Applications potential, give STS-Camtek a call on Tel: (+613) 5625 5200.
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