BIRMINGHAM, UK, Mar 18, 2015 – Kuei Tong Huang, from National Chin-Yi University of Technologyin Taiwan, was the winner of Delcam’s 2015 international student CAM competition, which was held at the company’s Birmingham headquarters earlier this month. Runner up in the competition was Zhao Zhiyang from China, while Lee Hyun Jun from South Korea came third.
The other finalists came from Germany, Russia, Malaysia and the Ukraine. Each of the contestants had previously won the CAM competition in their region to qualify for the final in Birmingham.
The Delcam CAM competition was again sponsored by cutting-tool supplier, Seco, which provided the tooling for the student’s machining projects.
For the final competition, each student was given an IGES file of a component from which they had to produce a machining program using Delcam’s PowerMILL software for high-speed and five-axis machining. The various NC programs were then run on one of the high-speed machining centers within Delcam’s Advanced Manufacturing Facility using a specified range of tooling supplied by Seco. All of the students were able to produce toolpaths that could be machined successfully, with the results being assessed against criteria including quality of toolpaths, machining time and surface finish.
After announcing the winner and presenting certificates to the winning contestants, Mark Forth, Product Manager for Advanced Manufacturing Solutions at Delcam, said: “Once again, we were impressed by the standard reached by all the students in the competition. While this was possibly to be expected given that each of the finalists had already won competitions in their home countries, it is still very pleasing to see the high standard achieved by all the participants.It demonstrates the success of Delcam’s collaborations with universities around the world, in helping to train the next generation of engineers for our growing international customer base.”
“We were very appreciative of Seco for the support given by the company for the competition,” added Mr. Forth.
