Software & Digital Solutions

IMTS 2016 featured more tools and systems for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) than ever, observed Cutting Tool Engineering Editor Alan Richter in his October 2016 Lead Angle column.

With the advent of CAM software, generating G code is no longer the big deal it was a few decades ago. A CAM system will generate all the G code you need in a matter of seconds. Presented here is the first part of a multiple-part series of columns on the subject.

Get With The Program column offers a heightened appreciation for the roles that machining parameters and heat play when cutting metal.

As component design optimization tasks flow down the supply chain, finite element analysis programs proliferate.

Five-axis programming is difficult, requires an expensive CAM system and an even more-expensive programmer to sit in front of a computer all day cranking out complicated G code. Right? Not necessarily.

HEIDENHAIN Corp. offers the current version of TNCremo software package for communication between PCs and HEIDENHAIN controls or programming stations via direct online download. Past versions were only available on DVD.

Eriez' latest innovation in metal detector technology, SmartX7Link software, gives users the power to remotely monitor, control and download logs for one or more Eriez Xtreme metal detectors. Remote access is available from anywhere within the local network in which the metal detector resides.

Chris Merlin, director of portfolio commercialization for the WIDIA Products Group, visited with Cutting Tool Engineering Publisher Don Nelson during IMTS 2016 to discuss the company's 90-year milestone and latest technology, including the VariMill Modular System, the VariTap and the features of the NOVO app.

K2D-KeyToData GmbH (K2D) announces the availability of the latest version of InspectionXpert OnDemand 2.0. In today's manufacturing market, companies are required to comply with increasingly rigid quality verification of their products. InspectionXpert software reportedly addresses this challenge by providing a software application that can be installed quickly, is easy to learn, and that can deliver the required manufacturing first-article inspection documents and related technical data packages in 50 to 90 percent less time.

Verisurf Software Inc. announced Verisurf 2017, the latest release of its measurement software for advanced surface analysis, quality inspection, assembly guidance and reverse engineering. The new release includes many enhancements and added capabilities.

Verisurf Software Inc. announced its latest release, Verisurf 2017, will be integrated to support and drive the Fowler, zCAT portable, programmable CMM. The accuracy, portability and repeatability of the zCAT CMM coupled with the power of Verisurf dimensional metrology software reportedly delivers a robust and fully programmable, portable inspection solution.

END USER: Ramona Enache, +31 634-824-992, www.tothepointer.com; SOLUTION PROVIDERS: DP Technology Corp., (800) 627-8479, www.espritcam.com; Logicad Solutions srl, www.logicad.ro; CHALLENGE: Design metal parts for a wine glass that sticks into the ground. SOLUTION: CAM software that defines all the machining operations, cutting tools and machining parameters.