VX Intelligent Machining Automation Speeds Up CNC Programming Productivity
Reduce machine shop bottlenecks.
| Published March 26, 2008
VX Corporation (Melbourne, FL) announces Intelligent Machining Automation to help eliminate machine shop bottlenecks by speeding up machine tool programming productivity.
VX Intelligent Machining Automation captures and re-uses CNC programming logic to accomplish machining a block of steel into a finished part, whether it’s a mold core/cavity, electrode or discrete part, especially when it involves different tool paths. Some of the decisions that go into the overall approach are toolpaths to use for different areas, types of tool paths for roughing and finishing operations, cutters used for each tool path, feed rates, step-over widths, depth of cuts and much more. While many of these decisions can be automated, each machine shop has its own approach and rules for machining based on its operational strategies, age and condition of equipment, experiences and preferences of their machinists and a host of other factors.
Core/cavity machining is an application for VX CAD/CAM's Intelligent Machining Automation, which lets users establish their own rules for machining a part, and once the tool paths are developed and saved for a part, VX can use these tool paths and rules as a knowledge base for intelligently automating development of machining for other parts.
For details, contact VX Corporation.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.