The programming tools CATIA offer are highly powerful and industry leading on both the manufacturing and design side. However, unless this powerful functionality is being sufficiently leveraged, the investment is not being capitalized on.
Let’s have a look at just 3 CATIA functions, that if implemented correctly, will very quickly bring about some noteworthy benefits and address key areas that have become buzz words within manufacturing –
‘The Skills Shortage’, Automation, Standardisation:
A great example of Power Copy use is in aerostructure programming where parts can reach >20m in length and programmers often repetitively create large amounts of NC geometry to perfect and fully optimize the cutting path.
In the case of the latter, any number of pre-defined tool paths with the appropriate parameter settings and cutting tools can be instantiated into the programming session with a few clicks of the mouse.
Company knowledge can easily be captured, standardised and re-used.
Commonly an implementation of the above tools would show an immediate positive impact in relation to the following:
An implementation of these types of automation tools at one OEM yielded an NC programming time reduction of 60%.
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