Cimskil Products
Cimskil provides advanced knowledge-driven Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) products.
These automate the generation of NC tool paths (up to 5 Axis) directly from the
design (solid) model. The products comprise:
- Cimskil Gateway
Provides for the import via ISO standard
STEP AP203 of the model of the as-designed part, assembly, fixture,
stock, or forging.
- Cimskil Automated Feature Recognition
Provides automated recognition of manufacturing
features on the as-designed part - or on an assembly as in
the case of e.g., weldments.
- Cimskil Expert
Expert gives you the capabilities to define within the product
your own manufacturing practices and standards, for use in
automating manufacturing engineering tasks.
- Cimskil Manufacturing Automation
This has two major components:
Automated Manufacturing, where the user employs the
rules and data embedded in the system to automatically generate machining process
plans, operation and tool lists, and NC toolpaths.
Interactive NC, which provides the cabability to change or over-ride
automated output, or to program manually any aspect of a part for which no
automated capability exists.
- Cimskil Numerical Control Verification (NCV)
NCV provides a graphical toolpath verification aid, which can be used either
completely integrated with the product, for instance while trying out automation
strategies in the Expert System, through to being used standalone to verify
APT/CL or G code files.
These are the system components and the data flow at run
time:
Cimskil enables the automation of manufacturing engineering tasks based upon two
fundamental technologies embodied in the above components:
- The automatic recognition of manufacturing features from solid part models
imported from the leading CAD systems. For more details of this, please use the
"Feature Recognition" link on the left menu.
- The ability for you to program your best manufacturing practices, based upon your particular products, environment, and shop floor
configuration. This gives you the ability to instill your knowledge and
requirements in the system, to be used to automate in future all those tasks you
choose. For more details of this, please use the "Expert System" link
on the left menu.
These two fundamental enablers provide you with
the ability to reduce your manufacturing throughput times by more
effective use of your resources. Demonstrated results provide 50% to 80%
savings in throughput time.
We believe Cimskil is the only manufacturing product that is driven by users' proven
manufacturing experience, which exploits a part's solid model and associated
information supplied by leading CAD systems. The software uses the latest technology
to incorporate a company's actual manufacturing shop floor experience into the system
for the automatic generation of manufacturing instructions.
The product provides template sets of standard methods and libraries,
which are updated with company specific manufacturing methodology. While Cimskil enables an enormous amount of
automation, it is important to stress again that all automated output can be
accepted, edited or over-ridden by the end-user.
More details of Cimskil's capabilities are given from the links on the menu to the
left.
Cimskil is based on leading edge technology. It has a modular architecture, is written
in object-oriented C++, use the X-Windows
and Motif graphical user interface, an advanced NC processor and a leading third-party object-oriented
database management system.
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