A leading medical device manufacturing company, Pioneer Surgical, has successfully built its reputation for innovation and responsiveness with the help from highly skilled people and the powerful functionalities of CAMWorks.

Read how CAMWorks with VoluMill helped Tomak quickly generate programs from submitted solid models as well as improve cycle times, tool life and machine life.

Datta Enterprises has been manufacturing precision components using SolidWorks® as their leading CAD software. In order to ensure smooth production, they required to implement a CAM platform that could machine complex parts on a sustained basis with minimal errors.

Tampa Bay Steel, one of Florida's major steel distribution and metal processing companies, ensures that they are always ‘ready for business’ with CAMWorks.

Sealegs has been using SolidWorks®, the industry-leading 3D CAD software for designing and modeling their amphibious boats. To effectively machine the required features, they selected CAMWorks that not only provided them with the best machining features but also seamlessly integrated effectively with SolidWorks.

The Oxnard, Calif., company used SolidWorks® 3D CAD software to conceive, design, and analyze the new track-mounted chainsaw attachment. Engineers combined SolidWorks software with CAMWorks® computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, a SolidWorks Certified Gold Partner product, to automatically machine parts for working prototypes.

While CAM technology has predominantly been used by the engineering community as a cost effective tool for greater efficiency in production, there is now a trend towards utilizing CAM in other creative ways. In a bold and unusual step, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, made one such creative use, when it decided to adopt CAMWorks as part of its curriculum for third year Industrial Design students.

Florida-based Magnus Hi-Tech Industries Inc. (www.magnusht.com), an established world-class precision fabricator, has experienced reduced engineering and CNC programming time by using CAMWorks, an intuitive solids-based CAM solution. Looking ahead, both CAMWorks and Magnus Hi-Tech, which now has two CAMWorks seats, seem to be similarly focused. “CAMWorks is always making improvements to their product and staying abreast of technology,” reflects Blake, “that is the same philosophy we have at Magnus Hi-Tech.”

When customers began to request more complex parts with shorter lead times, its time to look at optimizing manufacturing and business processes. In such situations a CAM software which provides simple and flexible support for customization to enable an integrated enterprise solution is a perfect fit.

Today metalcutting is a more competitive game than ever before, and winning requires advanced machine tools. However, progressive companies have realized that to fully utilize the productive – and profit making–potential of today’s machine tools you will need advanced software as well. Case in point : Roush Industries. Using CAMWorks, Roush Industries realized an improvement of as much as 73% as well as considerable reduction in the programming times for its operations.

A need to be even quicker in delivering its quick turnaround tooling led J&L Plastic Molding to look at a number of CAM packages before zeroing on Geometric Technologies’ CAMWorks software. Using CAMWorks has allowed J&L Plastic Molding to fine-tune its operations, beat its competitors and secure more business.

Rapid prototyping is critical for inventors. Waiting three weeks to have a wireframe drawing turned into metal, and then finding errors and having to repeat the process was wasting Chris Gamble’s time. He turned to a 3D solid CAD/CAM package and his own vertical machining center to change his ideas into reality.

Like other manufacturers, manufacturers of surgical instruments and medical devices need to make their products faster, better, and cheaper, and are always looking for ways to streamline their design and manufacturing processes. Alphatec Spine Inc. has been successful at generating efficiencies by using CAMWorks to automate redundant tasks.

Making a mold demands not just machining time, but also programming time- and much of that programming may not even involve the core and cavity. Using a CAM system capable of feature recognition and knowledge-based machining, the Rockwell Automation shop has now automated much of the redundant programming work that used to take so much time.