[step-manufacturing] Conference at regular time and day this Wednesday June 11

[Martin Hardwick]

All,

Our next conference call will be this Wednesday, June 11th at the 
regular times - 4PM Europe, 3PM UK, 10AM Eastern USA and 7AM Western USA.

1. Review first draft of press release (see below).
2. Review enhancements to latest HardMoldy data sets
3. Discussion of strategies for integrating the STEP-NC Explorer with 
the Okuma control (Thinc API)

Martin Hardwick
Team Leader STEP-Manufacturing

1. Please join my meeting.
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/285940474

2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. 
Or, call in using your telephone.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Lesli Garnett

Phone: 518-276-2848

Fax: 518-276-8471

Email: garnett at steptools.com

*Okuma, Sandvik and Iscar to demonstrate 15 to 30% improvement in 
machining efficiency *

*IMTS - September 9-13, 2014*-- You already know that post processor's 
create time delays, introduce errors and make it harder to take 
advantage of new machines. Now a team led by the Organization for 
Machine Automation and Control (OMAC) has shown how to enable a 15 to 30 
percent increase in manufacturing efficiency by replacing post's with a 
standardized CAM file.

Any CNC program can be optimized by modernizing its tooling, but the 
optimizer must meet all the design and manufacturing requirements. 
Gcodes do not have this information, so in 2012 OMAC issued a call to 
develop standardized CAM files. In response new ISO standard interfaces 
have been added to Catia, NX and Mastercam, and in May of 2013 Sandvik 
and Iscar started cloud services to optimize programs using the new 
files. The results are 15 to 30% better programs where the new 
efficiency can be realized as time savings, tool wear savings, or some 
combination of both.

At IMTS 2014, a test part developed by Boeing Commercial Airplane will 
be machined every day at 11AM in the Okuma booth. The titanium part will 
be machined using the original process, and then two optimized 
processes. A new CAM file simulator on the control will direct the 
machining and validate the design and manufacturing requirements. There 
will be an opportunity to discuss the technology with STEP Tools, Inc. 
at 2PM each day in the South building conference room.

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  About Okuma


  About Iscar


  About Sandvik


  About OMAC


  About STEP Tools, Inc.

STEP Tools, Inc., founded in 1991, provides software tools to enable 
design and manufacturing information sharing. Its products leverage 
standards to enable new types of manufacturing efficiency. The 
ST-Developer® libraries are used for CAD translation in a large 
percentage of the world's workstations. The STEP-NC Machine® system 
enables direct execution of standardized CAM files on the CNC control.


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