Nov 11 - Italy's CAM Selects think3 ThinkDesign

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Italy's CAM Selects think3 ThinkDesign

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MILAN, Italy, Nov 11, 2008 - CAM, an Italian company specialized in building assembly lines for the automotive industry, has chosen ThinkDesign to speed up the design process and streamline the production of hammings and welding cells. The company offers a “turn-key” product: from design to control, to assembling the requested machinery at the client’s plant. It develops welding cells and equipment, checking fixtures for sheet metal items, hammings for moving parts (doors, bonnet etc) and assembly lines.

CAM works in Italy with clients of the like of Fiat, Ferrari, Maserati, Giugiaro, and internationally with PSA Peugeot Citroën, Porsche and Valmet Automotive. In particular, collaboration with French company PSA Peugeot Citroën in 2001 sparked CAM’s decision to streamline procedures by adopting a software program for flexible design that was easy to use and that allowed for quick integration into the company’s processes.

Following careful analysis of competitors’ offer available on the market, CAM has chosen ThinkDesign, think3’s CAD solution, which proved to be extremely helpful in machinery design and hammings in particular. ThinkDesign is flexible, easy to use and tailored to meet the needs of manufacturing industries. “Our design process is currently entirely in 3D. Creating a new machine is a process that requires a great deal of commitment in terms of costs and human resources,” said Massimiliano Monastero, Technical Manager at CAM. “Therefore it is extremely important to streamline procedures implementing flexible and effective solutions. ThinkDesign allows for increased productivity thanks to its cutting edge technology, which enables full customization to the entire productive process.”

ThinkDesign is the designer's ideal partner for defining mechanical assemblies, breaking assemblies down into component lists, assessing the overall dimensions of components and assemblies, checking the feasibility of a shape sketched and drawn by the designer or drafted using a special function.

“ThinkDesign has helped streamline the implementation of projects while ensuring compliance with set deadlines”, said Monastero. “think3’s software proved to be perfect for the design of hammings and welding cells. Thanks to the flexibility of the tool, at CAM we were able to integrate the libraries with specific elements for the hammings, which are fundamental to streamline and speed up the entire process. Moreover, thanks to the use of hyperMILL, a machine system developed by Open mind (a partner of think3), CAM was able to establish direct communication between design and production, eliminating conversion time. In addition, using of the same interface in the two environments allows designers to better understand developer needs and minimize errors.”

About think3, Inc.

think3 has been operating in the ICT sector for more than 25 years and provides the only technology that links three separate design areas: the concept, its development and the finished product. In this way, think3 enables thousands of company customers to innovate, to compete and to rise to the challenges of global markets, thanks to the integration of processes, which helps to accelerate time to market and to reduce costs. Having been active in emerging markets with dedicated structures for many years, think3 can provide outsourcing services, thus offering companies a new opportunity to go international.

think3 boasts a consolidated presence across Europe, the US and Asia. The company has also secured a strong presence in China following joint venture deal sealed with Beijing Extech Science & Technology Co. Ltd to create EXTECH, a brand new company based in Beijing, with offices across the country. In the rest of the world, think3 is present throughout its network of selected VARs (Value Added Resellers). All this means that think3 can count among its customers some of the most significant enterprises in the industrial market.

For more information visit our site at http://www.think3.com.

About CAM

CAM (Costruzioni Attrezzature Meccaniche), established in 1986 in Carmagnola, in Piedmont, is a company specializing in the construction of body assembly lines for the automobile industry. The production plant consists of four buildings: one for machining and control, one for assembly and two for testing and trials of the lines and islands. The company offers a “turn-key” product: from design to control, to assembling the requested machinery at the client’s plant. CAM is ISO 9001/2000 certified. In Italy, it works with important clients like Fiat, Ferrari, Maserati, Giugiaro, and abroad with PSA, Porsche and Valmet Automotive.

For more information, visit http://www.cam-carmagnola.com.

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