When you machine parts of all sizes in materials ranging from nickel and cobalt-based superalloys to titanium and copper, catching mistakes before a workpiece is scrapped or a machine tool crashes is critical.
Staying competitive as a job shop often means meeting high standards while minimizing programming, setup, and processing times. VERICUT makes efficient production of high-quality components easier than ever. Cut machining times and eliminate prove outs by simulating your NC program to detect and prevent collisions, gouges, and other issues.
Where some shops wait for a crash before investing in toolpath simulation, or purchase it together with an expensive multi-axis machine tool as a means to avoid damaging said equipment, MIC Group needed neither of these justifications. “For us, there was nothing spectacular driving our decision to implement VERICUT,” Vanek said. “It was just a way to improve.”
Since then, the company has adopted another CAM system—DP Esprit—to augment its existing Mastercam capabilities. Vanek noted that this move had the unintended benefit of “basically doubling” the pool of CNC programmers available to them, but at the same time created another reason to be thankful for VERICUT: its ability to eliminate potential problems with post-processed NC code, a serious concern with multiple CAM systems and a dozen or so different machine tool controls.
Even very capable programmers make mistakes—the best programmers are those who catch their mistakes before putting them on the floor. That’s why I use VERICUT.