POSTED ON 3/9/2022 – The integration or connecting of CAD/CAM software to a machine tool can increase the confidence factor when it comes to machining your complex medical parts. When these systems are paired together with Mazak’s advanced SMOOTH control technology, you not only gain valuable real time data at the machine but also the ability to generate more accurate part program simulations, which in turn, increase your shop’s odds tremendously of producing a good first part, thus minimizing prove out time.
When shops run a simulation on a Mazak machine, they get tremendous confidence because the simulation uses all the machine’s data as provided by us, the OEM. So, what happens in the simulation will happen exactly the same way on the machine as long as the tool data is accurate.
Nowhere is this level of confidence more important than when running complex medical parts. Shops have invested considerable expense in their machine tools that are needed to run equally expensive parts, so the program must be right.
When it comes to optimizing part program simulations, OEMs have tried to shoehorn CAM systems into machine controls for decades, the results of which have seen little success mainly for two reasons. Machine control computers lack the power, and shops would rather not have operators or programmers spending long periods of time working at a machine’s control on the shop floor. With that said, it makes more sense to instead provide CAM systems with some type of seamless integration to a machine’s control; this would be more in line with a shop’s best interest.