Delivery time of more than one year for a forming tool in the automotive sector - This unusual schedule is only feasible when the tool supplier is heavily involved with the automotive manufacturer, even before the first prototype crash tests are performed.

Delcam’s CADCAM software has helped the Northbend Pattern Works, from West Harrison, Indiana, to streamline its mould manufacturing process and accelerate the turnaround of every mould. The company uses the PowerSHAPE CAD software to convert customers’ part designs into tooling designs and the PowerINSPECT inspection system to check both the moulds and the initial sample parts.

Technology is changing the face of aerospace manufacturing and quality assurance. No place is that change more welcome and dramatic than at Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. in Hawthorne, California.

Cornell Pump Company experienced a 100x speed up of a full transient system-level simulation and performance curve generation using the new CFdesign Motion and high performance computing (HPC) Modules, released earlier this month by Blue Ridge Numerics.

Helicopter seating and operational ergonomics are developed and optimised using Dassault Systèmes DELMIA software for pre-production design optimisation and cost savings through integrated PLM.

Bringing Delcam’s ArtCAM Pro into its studios has allowed London-based ice specialist, Eskimo Ice, to break free from traditional ice-sculpting methods. The company has employed a pioneering, accurate and time-saving approach that allows it to accept increasing orders and concentrate on adding the final intricacies to its pieces by hand.

Moving up to the five-axis machining module of Delcam’s FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system has cut programming times by up to 75% at Fillauer Companies, Inc.

The use of Geomagic Studio digital shape sampling and processing (DSSP) software at leading automotive design, development and certification organisation, MIRA, enables the rapid creation of 3D data for use in downstream vehicle design and engineering tasks.

DSSP is driving a convergence that is forever changing the way we design, analyze, manufacture, inspect and maintain products