Success Story
IGM is a company specialized in manufacturing big moulds. The starting point is an already roughed stock. Due to the complexity and size of the moulds and the high finishing level required, a huge amount of individual toolpaths will be applied to each mould to subsequently reduce the stock material.
A common problem consists of considering the mould finished and removing it from the machine to later in the process, normally during mould assembly, discover that some surfaces still have excess material thickness.
This requires the altering of the whole shop floor programming, removing parts from the machine to load the part with excess thickness, making a perfect alignment, producing new CAM toolpaths, and more.
The challenge was to start using the probes that are already installed on all milling centers and determine if the part can be removed or not.
The goal of this project was to implement an easy and quick proceedure to measure the finished part on the machine, allowing the machine operator to decide if the part can be removed or if further toolpaths need to be generated and run.
The constraints were:
Norcam approached IGM and installed Autodesk Fusion 360 with the Machining Extension, which IGM already had access to, due to their Fusion 360 with PowerMill licenses.
Upon verification, Norcam determined that all fitted probes of the relevant machining centers were compatible with OMV. In fact, Norcam had anticipated this technology in the past and had already advised IGM on which probes to purchase on new machines.
Norcam then configured the required post-processors for OMV and gave the relevant CAM programmers training on how to produce OMV toolpaths and post-process them.
Some hands-on trial runs were also carried out on-site.
Implementinig OMV at IGM was a huge success.
Apart from implementation and training, no extra costs were due to IGM.
All programmers gladly embraced this technology, which they did not consider a nuisance to their already stressful obligations, but rather a relief, because it improved productivity while removing the stress of figuring out if no surface was forgotten during finishing.
IGM considerably reduced the amount of incidents when a mould had to return to the machine because regions were not properly finished.
Fusion 360 with the Machining Extension is a very cost effective solution for OMV.
It reduces issues with excess material on forgotten regions of the part and the hassle associated in getting that part back on the machine.
The extra programming/execution time is negligible and the gains are enormous.
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