Delcam Announces JR Automation as 25,000th Customer
 BIRMINGHAM,
UK, May 6, 2008 - Delcam is pleased to announce that the company recently
added its 25,000th customer, JR Automation Technologies, LLC, a special
machine developer based in Holland, Michigan. The order was for six seats of
the FeatureCAM feature-based machining software.
Delcam Chairman, Peter Miles, presented Jason Metzger
of JR Automation with a plaque at the company’s recent North American
Technical Summit held at Methods Machine Tools in Sudbury, MA
JR Automation was founded
in 1980 and has grown to become one of the leading special machine companies
in the Mid-West USA, with an annual turnover of more than $40 million.
Today, more than 160 employees occupy a 120,000 square foot facility in
Holland, Michigan. JR designs and builds lean manufacturing systems, for
metal welding, assembly, testing, fabric wrapping and material handling,
including robotic welding and assembly solutions. Its customers include some
of the world’s leading automotive, consumer goods, and office furniture
manufacturers.
The decision to use FeatureCAM in place of JR’s previous manufacturing
software was prompted by the arrival at the company of Fabrication Manager,
Jason Metzger. He had first purchased FeatureCAM some three years previously
while working for a smaller automation firm. At that time, Mr. Metzger had
undertaken a very extensive search of the CAM software that was available
and affordable for his company. He selected FeatureCAM because of its
compatibility with the company’s design software, its ease of use and its
robustness for both 2D and 3D machining applications.
In December 2007, Mr. Metzger moved to JR, where he was tasked with
improving his new employer’s manufacturing processes. One of his first
discoveries was regular bottlenecks in converting the machine designs into
manufactured parts because the NC programs were taking too long to create.
Furthermore, the tool paths were not very efficient so machine tool
productivity was suffering.
With his previous experience of FeatureCAM, Mr. Metzger was convinced it
could provide a more efficient solution so he arranged a demonstration for
JR’s Purchasing Manager Joel Cooper and the company’s programming team. This
soon made it clear that FeatureCAM was a much more efficient product, not
only compared with the program the team was currently using but with the
supplier’s recently-acquired specialist machining software as well. An
obvious advantage was the ease of use of the FeatureCAM software. This was
in marked contrast to the existing software, which was complicated to learn
and to use.
JR now has a seat of FeatureCAM next to each machine tool control in its
manufacturing cell. This provides easy monitoring of the machine, while the
operator is programming the next part. The expected time savings have
quickly been realized. “With the advanced feature recognition in FeatureCAM,
programming time on the plate components for our machinery has been reduced
from an hour to 20 minutes or less,” reported Mr. Metzger.
For more information, visit
www.delcam.com.
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