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High-Performance Nesting
the software, shared by 12 users trained to use it—some for part programming only, others for programming and nest- ing. The QRM team includes two Jet- cam users.
“While programming with our pre- vious software required numerous time-consuming steps and a lot of but- ton-pushing for every part program and nest, over several hours, with Jet- cam we can get programs done in 15 to
30 min.,” Grundel says. “That pro- gramming efficiency makes it easier for us to train our people to use the software, and allows us to afford the luxury of having so many employees capable of using it. And, since we can create new programs in just a fraction of the time it used to take, our employ- ees, particularly those in our industri- al-engineering group, are freed up to perform other value-added tasks.”
Software Evolution
All manufacturing software prod- ucts evolve over time, often based on user recommendations, and Jetcam is no exception. One such recom- mendation from Grundel and his team, provided via NestOne, involved the spacing of parts on a nest to accommodate the width of the punch- ing tool.
“Previously, if a programmer didn’t accurately account for tool width when laying out a sheet nest, parts potentially could overlap,” says Grun- del. “Now, the software captures data related to the size of the tool being used to create part features, and auto- matically makes the required adjust- ments to part spacing.”
As another example of MPE feed- back to NestOne resulting in a Jet- cam software update, Grundel again stresses the extraordinary number of special tools the firm inventories for punching unique part features. “Users can instruct Jetcam to automatically assign specific tools to specific tasks— unique part features, for example. Before, that function only worked with standard tools, so if we wanted to assign our custom tools to specific part features, we had to do that man- ually. Based on our feedback to NestOne, Jetcam updated the soft- ware so that it now automatically clears away any tool setup it might develop to create a part and reassigns one or more of our special tools to do the work, based on our pro- grammed preferences.”
Last but not least, Grundel describes another MPE-generated idea imple- mented by Jetcam to improve pro- gramming efficiency.
“We asked their programmers to make it easier to tool-up the same parts to run on multiple machines,” he says, “to give us more flexibility without hav- ing to apply tools twice, for two differ- ent punching machines. In response, they added a feature that allows us to copy the tools used in one machine program over to the program devel- oped for a second machine—a huge timesaver.” MF
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