Clearwater, FL -- (www.bobcad.com) -- BobCAD-CAM is solidifying their quest for excellence in the CAD-CAM market by appointing Alex Cole as their new Director of Partner Products & Technical Services. Mr. Cole is passionate about industry-leading manufacturing technology, compiling over 21 years of experience in Tool & Die, Drafting & Design, 2-5 Axis Milling & Turning as well as many other manufacturing technologies. His new role is as follows:
Partner Products Division
Directing the Partner Products team to find, evaluate, and onboard new distribution partners around the world. Reviews and handles escalated contract negotiations. Oversees the support, training and maintenance of existing distribution partners. Directs and oversees the creation of educational programs and sales efforts. Maintains quality standards and goals.
Technical Services Division
Oversees and implements best practices to improve the quality of service delivered to the customer base by technical support staff. Driving continuous education efforts for all internal technical services staff. Audits and ensures the quality of post processors that are delivered to customers. This includes implementing new standards of practice to ensure correct and accurate post processor files are created and properly tested. Overseeing all training staff and programs to ensure the best quality of training is delivered to the customer base.
Mr. Cole has refined his skills and knowledge through hands-on experience, and while working for two leading CAD-CAM companies at a combined period of over 17 years. He has held various positions, including Applications Engineer, Post Processor Developer, Advanced Applications Trainer, Software Quality Assurance Manager, and Director of Partner Program. This has allowed him to assist customers around the world as well as to help shape and influence CAD-CAM software functionality and design to support cutting-edge manufacturing techniques. His focus is providing industry customers with solutions to their complex manufacturing needs.
Related Glossary Terms
- gang cutting ( milling)
gang cutting ( milling)
Machining with several cutters mounted on a single arbor, generally for simultaneous cutting.
- milling
milling
Machining operation in which metal or other material is removed by applying power to a rotating cutter. In vertical milling, the cutting tool is mounted vertically on the spindle. In horizontal milling, the cutting tool is mounted horizontally, either directly on the spindle or on an arbor. Horizontal milling is further broken down into conventional milling, where the cutter rotates opposite the direction of feed, or “up” into the workpiece; and climb milling, where the cutter rotates in the direction of feed, or “down” into the workpiece. Milling operations include plane or surface milling, endmilling, facemilling, angle milling, form milling and profiling.
- quality assurance ( quality control)
quality assurance ( quality control)
Terms denoting a formal program for monitoring product quality. The denotations are the same, but QC typically connotes a more traditional postmachining inspection system, while QA implies a more comprehensive approach, with emphasis on “total quality,” broad quality principles, statistical process control and other statistical methods.
- turning
turning
Workpiece is held in a chuck, mounted on a face plate or secured between centers and rotated while a cutting tool, normally a single-point tool, is fed into it along its periphery or across its end or face. Takes the form of straight turning (cutting along the periphery of the workpiece); taper turning (creating a taper); step turning (turning different-size diameters on the same work); chamfering (beveling an edge or shoulder); facing (cutting on an end); turning threads (usually external but can be internal); roughing (high-volume metal removal); and finishing (final light cuts). Performed on lathes, turning centers, chucking machines, automatic screw machines and similar machines.
