Benchmarking iCAPS - Cadem's CAD/CAM

News 2004

5 Feb 2004

Objective

To demonstrate the capabilities of iCAPS to senior application executives of Ace Micromatic Machinetools .

> Introduction to CADEM and its products
> Introduction to iCAPS
> iCAPS - benfits to end user.
> iCAPS - benfits to MMT.
> Type of customers that can benefit from iCAPS.
> Type of customers that cannot benefit from iCAPS.
> Justifying investment in iCAPS.

Who were present?

MMT	CADEM
Rakesh Chawla, Dy Manager - Delhi	Hidayath, Country Manager
Ravindra Warishe, Asst Manager - Pune	Rajakumar, Sr. Engineer Applications
Anil Khuswaha, Asst Manager- Aurangabad
Milind Bane, Sr. Service Engineer - Mumbai
Umesh Kulkarni, Sr. Service Engineer - Mumbai
S. Maity, Sr. Service Engineer - Kolkata
T.M. Shailesh, Sr. Engineer Application - Ace
T.S.Naidu, Engineer Customer Support - Ace

What was done?

The final report

Part name	Ball pin
Blank Size	Length 70 mm, Diameter 63 mm
Raw material	Mild steel
Operations	OD Turning Finish turning Threading
Tools used	PDJNL 2525 R0.8PDJNL 2525 R0.4Thread
Image of the part cut

Key benefits of iCAPS proved

Time from drawing to the first part cut

> Manual process estimated by MMT engineers = 180 min.
> Actual time taken by iCAPS = 30 min.

Saves 83%

Programming time

> Manual process estimated by MMT engineers = 30 min.
> Actual time taken by iCAPS = 05 min.

Saves 83%

Cycle time

> Calculated by iCAPS = 2 min 50 seconds
> Actual time taken by LT20 = 2 min 53 seconds

Accuracy 98.5%

First- time- right program

> Program generated by iCAPS was run on LT20 with no manual editing.
> Part was cut in Auto Cycle mode directly - single block check on machine avoided.
> No alarms / errors were found in the program.
> No tool collisions and gouges.