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All,<br>
<br>
I am pleased to announce that an article on the CCAM meeting has
been published in the Modern Machine Shop Blog.<br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri"><a
href="http://www.mmsonline.com/blog/post/cam-to-cam-data-exchange-with-step-nc-">http://www.mmsonline.com/blog/post/cam-to-cam-data-exchange-with-step-nc-</a><br>
<br>
</span></font> The CAM Tooling Scenario has been selected for the
first pilot. In this pilot machine shops will save machining
programs to STEP-NC and send them to the tooling vendors. The
tooling vendors will analyze the operations and make tooling
recommendations. The recommendations will be sent back as STEP-NC
programs using the proposed tooling and optimal process data.<br>
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In our testing phase we showed that optimizing tooling and process
data can reduce machining times by 15% or more. <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.steptools.com/library/stepnc/2008_ccat/">http://www.steptools.com/library/stepnc/2008_ccat/</a><br>
<br>
Martin Hardwick<br>
Team Leader STEP-Manufacturing<br>
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