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VISTAGY and JETCAM expand partnership JETCAM International and VISTAGY Inc are expanding their business and technology partnership. The agreement follows development work between the companies to create a seamless exchange of 3D product data between VISTAGY’s FiberSIM® composites design software and JETCAM’s Expert computer aided manufacturing (CAM) and nesting software. FiberSIM is said to help engineers predominantly in the aerospace, automotive, marine, and wind energy industries streamline many of the timeconsuming, complex tasks for designing and manufacturing composite products. The software is integrated into commercial 3D computer aided design (CAD) software. 2D flat patterns of composite plies generated by FiberSIM from the 3D CAD model can be automatically exported to JETCAM’s nesting software to ensure manufacturers accurately create composites shapes with less material waste and fewer errors than previously possible, according to the companies. The higher levels of JETCAM Expert systems take advantage of FiberSIM-generated design information, ply geometry, and flat patterns and allow fully automated and unmanned processing and nesting of laminate plies. VISTAGY Inc is also introducing FiberSIM® 5.3, the latest version of its software. It is said that by using the software, quality engineers can accomplish their tasks in hours,
and can ensure that composite products conform to all design specifications and accurately reflect design changes. The company claims that with FiberSIM 5.3, engineers can now utilise design data to automate traditionally tedious, error-prone quality planning processes for first article and ongoing inspection of products made of advanced composite materials. Traditionally, in order to create plans, quality engineers manually compiled design data, interrogated every individual note, ply or annotation and entered data into a series of required forms that comply with AS/EN/SJAC 9100 specifications. Quality plans could take weeks to accomplish, especially for large complex parts, and data entry errors could cause part rejections and cost overruns. FIberSIM 5.3 features a new module that enables quality engineers to consume 3D design data created in FiberSIM to verify design or ply definition information and export data to quality planning documents such as AS 9100 forms 1, 2 and 3 at the touch of a button, according to VISTAGY. Complete product definitions are created in FiberSIM and shared as part of a master computer aided design (CAD) model, meaning all downstream processes for manufacturing and quality planning are integrated, which, in turn, improves communication between teams.
Marine company ups machining capacity
Release agent enhances aerospace system
VECTORWORKS MARINE has doubled its computer numerical control (CNC) machining capacity with the installation of a new 31.4 m (103 ft) long x 8.5 m (28 ft) wide x 4 m (13 ft) tall 5axis CNC router. According to Vectorworks, the new mill will not only enable it to machine larger plugs and limited production tooling in a single piece, but its four times greater machining speed and even tighter tolerances compared to the existing mills will also allow it to significantly increase its capacity for existing parts.
ZYVAX INC is adding a presaturated application wipe of its DEPARTURE release agent to its release system for the aerospace industry. DEPARTURE is solvent-free, odourless and said to provide a releasing surface that doesn’t transfer and requires only room temperature cure. The company, based in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, claims that DEPARTURE wipes provide an innovative and economical application method for all types of processes including adhesive bonding, resin transfer moulding (RTM), VARTM, and infusion.
Vectorworks Marine; www.vectorworksmarine.com
Zyvax; www.zyvax.com
JETCAM International; www.jetcam.com VISTAGY Inc; www.vistagy.com July/August 2007
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VISTAGY and JETCAM expand partnership JETCAM International and VISTAGY Inc are expanding their business and technology partnership. The agreement follows development work between the companies to create a seamless exchange of 3D product data between VISTAGY’s FiberSIM® composites design software and JETCAM’s Expert computer aided manufacturing (CAM) and nesting software. FiberSIM is said to help engineers predominantly in the aerospace, automotive, marine, and wind energy industries streamline many of the timeconsuming, complex tasks for designing and manufacturing composite products. The software is integrated into commercial 3D computer aided design (CAD) software. 2D flat patterns of composite plies generated by FiberSIM from the 3D CAD model can be automatically exported to JETCAM’s nesting software to ensure manufacturers accurately create composites shapes with less material waste and fewer errors than previously possible, according to the companies. The higher levels of JETCAM Expert systems take advantage of FiberSIM-generated design information, ply geometry, and flat patterns and allow fully automated and unmanned processing and nesting of laminate plies. VISTAGY Inc is also introducing FiberSIM® 5.3, the latest version of its software. It is said that by using the software, quality engineers can accomplish their tasks in hours,
and can ensure that composite products conform to all design specifications and accurately reflect design changes. The company claims that with FiberSIM 5.3, engineers can now utilise design data to automate traditionally tedious, error-prone quality planning processes for first article and ongoing inspection of products made of advanced composite materials. Traditionally, in order to create plans, quality engineers manually compiled design data, interrogated every individual note, ply or annotation and entered data into a series of required forms that comply with AS/EN/SJAC 9100 specifications. Quality plans could take weeks to accomplish, especially for large complex parts, and data entry errors could cause part rejections and cost overruns. FIberSIM 5.3 features a new module that enables quality engineers to consume 3D design data created in FiberSIM to verify design or ply definition information and export data to quality planning documents such as AS 9100 forms 1, 2 and 3 at the touch of a button, according to VISTAGY. Complete product definitions are created in FiberSIM and shared as part of a master computer aided design (CAD) model, meaning all downstream processes for manufacturing and quality planning are integrated, which, in turn, improves communication between teams.
Marine company ups machining capacity
Release agent enhances aerospace system
VECTORWORKS MARINE has doubled its computer numerical control (CNC) machining capacity with the installation of a new 31.4 m (103 ft) long x 8.5 m (28 ft) wide x 4 m (13 ft) tall 5axis CNC router. According to Vectorworks, the new mill will not only enable it to machine larger plugs and limited production tooling in a single piece, but its four times greater machining speed and even tighter tolerances compared to the existing mills will also allow it to significantly increase its capacity for existing parts.
ZYVAX INC is adding a presaturated application wipe of its DEPARTURE release agent to its release system for the aerospace industry. DEPARTURE is solvent-free, odourless and said to provide a releasing surface that doesn’t transfer and requires only room temperature cure. The company, based in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, claims that DEPARTURE wipes provide an innovative and economical application method for all types of processes including adhesive bonding, resin transfer moulding (RTM), VARTM, and infusion.
Vectorworks Marine; www.vectorworksmarine.com
Zyvax; www.zyvax.com
JETCAM International; www.jetcam.com VISTAGY Inc; www.vistagy.com July/August 2007
REINFORCEDplastics
19