SolidCAM Customer Success Stories

SolidCAM helps companies around the world to gain and maintain a competitive edge. Small job shops and global corporations alike rely on SolidCAM to provide world-class quality manufacturing tools.
 
SolidCAM offers the tools, performance and productivity to grow your business. Read here what successful enterprises say about SolidCAM.
 

The Turkish company BASAR MAKINA has been founded in the year 1961 in Beylikduzu, Istanbul (Turkey) by Yasar Basar. The company started with the manufacturing of machine equipment for the food and textile industry. Later this business has been extended to the manufacturing of complete production lines. BASAR MAKINA has built many of the tea factories at the Black sea side of Turkey.
 
With the increasing complexity of the products, BASAR MAKINA took the next step by migrating from the 2D CAD system to an integrated 3D CAD/CAM system. After evaluating several systems, the design and manufacturing team finally decided for the combined solution SolidWorks+SolidCAM. 
 
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High Performance Manufacturing for High Performance Car Components
  
The town of Tamworth, Staffordshire; is not only known for its historic merits; but also for its engineering and manufacturing industry. Here the engineer and sports car racer John Moore founded in 1984 Alcon Components Limited. The company has gained a worldwide reputation for manufacturing and supplying high specification brake components and clutches to motorsport and for high performance road vehicles.
 
In the world of motorsport, Alcon became a Technical Partner to the Honda F1 Racing Team by supplying brake callipers of a patented design. Alcon is also cooperating with other Formula 1 teams to develop the next generation of F1 braking systems. Alcon is well known in US motorsport, providing brake components to the leading racing teams of the IRL and NASCAR series. In addition the motorsport departments within Audi, BMW, Ford, Honda, Peugeot, Renault and Volkswagen count on the technology of Alcon, as well as some prestigious road car manufacturers; including Brabus, Jaguar, Land Rover and Prodrive.
  
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Vacuum forming specialist Big Bear Plastic Products Ltd, based in Droitwich, UK has achieved an enviable position, supplying to a diverse range of markets from Leisure to Aerospace.

The company is able to offer consultancy and design services along with manufacture and supply, assisting customers from concept to components including tooling and material selection, while not forgetting the incorporation of customer specific supply chain requirements.
 
The company’s growth rate, coupled with the target of reducing project lead times, led Big Bear to invest in a CAM system that integrates with its current CAD solution - SolidWorks.
  
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SolidCAM gives packager the benefits of High Speed Machining

Panoramic, Inc. began nearly 130 years ago as the Janesville Paper Box Company housed in a brick factory in the fields of southern Wisconsin, United States. Today, the company occupies a modern 100,000 square-foot facility, but its output is far from boxy. Panoramic, Inc. now specializes in custom-designed clear plastic 3D packaging – from clamshells that display razors and cell phones to domes that show off bakery confections. 
 
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BS Plastic A/S is one of the pioneers in plastic manufacturing in Denmark. In 1958 Steen Simonsons’ father started the company in Risskov near Aarhus and the company was 100% craftsman oriented until the 1990`s. BS Plastic supplies plastic parts in series from 5 to 500 to a variety of premium manufacturing companies ranging from film machinery producers to windmill factories.
 
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Chosen as one of the fastest growing private companies in California’s Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal, Essai Corporation has become one of the leading providers of products for testing the reliability of IC (integrated circuit) chips in just three years. One of the primary reasons the company has grown so quickly and succeeded in a highly competitive market is its integrated approach to manufacturing. [more...]

Saurer Textile is the world market leader for turnkey  production lines for the textile industry. Its daughter company Neumag Saurer, located in Neumuenster/Germany, is specialized in all nonwoven processes. The customized production lines require the manufacturing of a large number of precise and complex parts, which are machined on 24 different CNC machine tools centers. For the CAD/CAM-Programming, seven seats of the combined  solution "SolidWorks+SolidCAM" have been installed. According to Neumag Saurer the strenghts of SolidCAM are "the sucesssful integration in SolidWorks as well as the ease-of-use and the powerful G-Code generation".
 
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How a Polish patternmaker prepares for the future
 
Today, computer aided design, animation and simulation plays an increasingly important role for designing better products. However, in order to really test the final design, engineers need to produce concept models and functional test parts quickly and inexpensively. In the last years, new Rapid Prototyping technologies like 3D printers helped to speed up this process. 3D Printers create physical models directly from 3D files utilizing High performance composites or elastomeric material.
 
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The INglass Group of San Polo di Piave, Italy, was founded in 1987 as “Incos” to design and manufacture molds for the plastic injection industry. In 1991, Incos began specializing in multi-color and multi-component rotary molds for automotive lightings. Based on the experience gained in this sector, the company set up in 2001 its HRSflow division, dedicated to the design and production of hot-runner injection molding systems for plastic materials. [more...]

CKD found out that shortening of the preparation time, namely the time to generate NC toolpaths, is as important as shortening of the machining time. Since CKD manufactures a whole variety of different parts for the production lines, efficient CNC programming for each of the parts is key to minimize the overall system lead time. Formerly, the machining section worked with two different CAM systems, one for 2.5D machining and one for 3D machining. The reason was that the 2.5D CAM system was unable to create 3D tool paths, and the 3D CAM system was unsuitable to create 2.5D tool paths. So, they sometimes had to combine both CAM systems to create a single toolpath - a very time-consuming process. [more...]

The Czech high-tech shop Frencken s.r.o uses SolidCAM to solve the bottleneck in NC programming of modern 5-axis CNC machines.
 
The times have passed in which the main business for contract manufacturers in Eastern Europe was the production of simple commodity parts. Frencken Brno s.r.o., headquartered in Brno in Czech Republic, today produces the most complex parts of the highest quality for demanding customers from the aeronautics and aerospace industry, for instrument and measuring instrument makers, manufacturers of medical devices and even producers of laser and radar equipment. And the progress can no longer be attributed only to advantages of location, such as lower staff costs, less labour regulations and better tax benefits. [more...]

Griffith Rubber Mills of Portland, Oregon, bought its CNC mill only 18 months ago, keeping its tooling work in-house for the first time. According to Kris Beuchamp, SolidCAM helped make starting up with CAM simple. [more...]

"With SolidCAM, we can now do parts that we couldn’t do before - also our goal of utilizing the same model through CAD/CAE/CAM has been achieved," explains Product Development Manager Rob Hardesty of Peregrine Falcon Corporation. For Peregrine, precise, high-quality tooling is paramount because of the specialized scientific hardware for spacecraft and satellite applications that they develop." [more...]

“SolidCAM allows me to quickly take a design and create effective G-code for our CNC-machines,” says James Thompson, vice-president of operations at Alpha Engineering and Design (AED). Since AED implemented SolidCAM software a year ago, the time-consuming tasks of programming CNC machine code have been drastically reduced. Thompson estimates that “SolidCAM makes the entire process from design to cut four times faster.”  [more...]

In Germany a breakthrough agreement of over 1000 licenses of SolidWorks and SolidCAM guarantees 3D CAD/CAM training on the highest level for 3200 students in 30 technical schools. [more...]