UK's Cgi to Use Delcam PowerMILL for Mecof Machine
 BIRMINGHAM,
UK, July 31, 2007 - Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM system will be used to drive the
UK’s largest Mecof machine tool, a twelve and a half meter long machine that
has been installed by Concept Group International (Cgi) at its purpose-built
Coventry, UK, headquarters. This large machine is the latest addition to the
4,000 sq. m Cgi facility, which has been rated by Jaguar Cars Design
Director Ian Callum as “one of the most technically advanced in Europe.”
Cgi will use Delcam’s PowerMILL to program the UK’s largest Mecof machine
Cgi is the UK’s fastest growing independent R&D technology centre,
supporting Europe’s most technologically advanced digital studios. The
company has two facilities in Coventry and also an office in Shangai China.
It specializes in new product development for some of the world’s most
demanding automotive customers, including Ford, General Motors and Nissan.
In all cases, the priority is to bring new products to market faster. Cgi
achieves this through their development of a unique ‘fast-track’ digital
process that breaks down the boundaries between design and engineering found
in the traditional linear approach to product development. Instead,
activities are synchronized to speed the overall process, while retaining
design flair and engineering excellence. In a typical example, Wrightbus was
able to reduce its product development time for a new coach by at least 25%
by using Cgi’s services. The company is also expanding rapidly into the
marine, aerospace and public transport sectors.
A key part of Cgi’s process is in the engineering and design development
whereby the rapid production of a full-size model of the new concept can be
seen much earlier in the development process than is normal. This is
undertaken in either clay or model board using specially-developed,
multi-head milling units, in which up to four heads can be used
simultaneously to machine the overall form.
All programming for these machines is undertaken with PowerMILL. With
four synchronized programs needed to run the four heads, the programming
speed of the software is even more important to Cgi than it is to Delcam’s
customers with more conventional machines. At the same time, the quality of
the programs allows full-size clay models to be machined to within 0.1 mm.
Cgi’s CNC studios are owned by both the design and engineering teams and
the full scale CAD visualization models can be viewed on the walls of the
studios in the same environment as the physical model. This allows designers
and engineers to review simultaneously the physical model and the CAD data.
Changes in either the virtual or the physical environment can be quickly
replicated in the other format.
PowerMILL is also an important part of Cgi’s unique carbon fiber
prototyping process. Carbon fiber prototype panels are taken from machine
cut moulds to build up the ‘Body in White’. Carbon constructions replicates
steel and alumina body engineering and design without the need for expensive
tooling and long lead times. These are then painted in Cgi’s low bake oven
painting facility to accurately replicate production intent. CGI can produce
a fully-engineered prototype in-house in six months.
The new Mecof machine will allow Cgi to secure in-house machining
capability for larger projects and also to machine harder materials,
including steels and aerospace alloys. This will enable the company to take
its projects further down the path to full-scale manufacturing by giving it
additional facilities for the production of tooling, jigs and fixtures.
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