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Improve Machining Efficiency Through Digital Twin Simulation

Full simulation of a machining cycle using digital twins can not only identify crashes before they happen, but provide insights that enable the user to reduce cycle times.

OEM Moves From Automation Implementation to Refinement

Automating challenging parts for full-weekend automation requires substantial process refinements that can significantly boost throughput.

Esprit and Cetim Validate Binder Jetting Support

Esprit and Cetim have expanded their partnership to include additive manufacturing, recently achieving support for binder jetting through Esprit Cam.

Esprit launches On-Demand Learning Center

Esprit has launched Esprit Learning Center, an on-demand platform for teaching prospective CAM users the Esprit CAM software.

Esprit Software Keeps Wet Design Agile

The Esprit CAM system has enabled artistic fountain creator Wet Design to increase efficiency and spend its time creating instead of troubleshooting code.

DP Technology and Alma Develop Robot Additive DED Solution

DP Technology and Alma have partnered to create a complete programming solution for robot additive direct energy deposition.

DP Technology Optimizes ESPRIT for Willemin-Macodel

DP Technology has worked with Willemin-Macodel to optimize the ESPRIT CAM software for Willemin-Macodel’s complex mill-turn machines.

DP Technology's Esprit Supports DED Additive Manufacturing

Esprit CAM introduces support for direct energy deposition additive manufacturing, offering users a full-spectrum additive solution from CAD file to finished part.

Esprit from DP Technology Gets Added Probing Cycles

DP Technology has added a suite of probing cycles to Esprit CAM software.

Esprit CAM Software Integrates with Mazak's Smooth AI CNC

This development is an outgrowth of a collaborative partnership between DP Technology and Mazak Japan.

CAM System Smooths Shop’s Transition to Ventilator Part Production

Pindel Global Precision’s CEO used his Navy SEAL experience to help his shop navigate the switch from one CAM system to another while manufacturing new ventilator parts in the middle of a pandemic.

Esprit 2020 CAD/CAM Software Improves CAD Interface

Esprit 2020 from DP Technology features significant updates to its CAD interfaces, among other improvements.

A Seven-Axis Multitasking Machine Demands a CAM Software Upgrade

A new order led Forbidn Manufacturing to buy a multitasking machine, but to program it effectively required taking on Esprit CAM software. The combination produces the part in two hours instead of eight.

CAM Simulation Gets Toolmaker up to Speed with B-Axis EDM

Software simulation helped this machine shop learn how to program its new advanced, high-tolerance wire EDM. The software also helped the shop turn job quotes around quickly.

Fixturing for Five-Axis CNCs

For some high-batch-size jobs and/or very complex parts, custom fixtures designed and manufactured in house enable Powill Manufacturing and Engineering to get the most out of its five-axis machining capability.

CAD/CAM Software Contributes to Shop's Fourfold Revenue Increase

C&S Machine & Manufacturing has long applied CNC machining successfully, but growth started to expose the limitations of its programming processes. Esprit CAM software from DP Technology has helped to overcome these limitations and usher in even more growth.

CAM Software Increases Tool Life, Machine Usage

IMTS 2018: DP Technology’s Esprit CAM software enables manufacturers to streamline their workflows and reduce silo formation.

DP Technology Holds 15th Annual Esprit World Conference

This year’s conference emphasized automation while centering human creativity, offering educational courses and workshops for customers.

CAD/CAM Helps Shop Achieve Tight Tolerances for Medical Components

For Valley Machine, manually programming its turn-mills was time-consuming, requiring multiple edits. Esprit software's CAD/CAM postprocessors eliminated code editing and sped production of complex medical parts.

CAM Software’s Roughing Strategy Boosts Lathe Productivity

DP Technology’s Esprit CAM software features ProfitTurning, a lathe roughing strategy designed to significantly reduce machine cycle time, increase precision and improve quality control.

CAM Software Reduces Programming, Machining Times

MDL Europe needed a customizable CAM solution to program complex parts. Esprit CAM software from DP Technology proved easy to learn and increased production capabilities.

CAM Software Saves Time in Micro-Precision Turning

JTD SAS implemented Esprit CAM software from DP Technology in order to solve the inefficiency of manually programming their CNCs. This saved programming time and ensured optimized cutting paths.

Aztalan Aims for Rapid Adjustment

Aztalan Engineering shortened its lead times by switching to a short-run cell model for its prototype jobs and implementing a company-wide QRM strategy.

CAM Software Reduces Five-Axis Cycle Times

DP Technology’s Esprit 2015 CAM software offers improvements for intelligent machining, strategic machining, CAD-CAM data exchange and cloud-enabled CAM.

Discover More—And I Did

The time I spent at the Discover More with Mazak Midwest event in Schaumburg, Ill. was designed to help attendees discover new tools and techniques for staying ahead of the manufacturing curve. Here are four good ideas that caught my attention.

Shop Gains Efficiency through Machinery, Software Pairing

By pairing a multitasking machine with new Esprit CAM software from DP Technology, Von Ruden Manufacturing was able to increase its efficiency and compete with companies of a larger size.

CAM Improves Programming of Multitasking Machines

By investing in Esprit CAM software from DP Technology, French manufacturer Lathuille-Hudry was able to take full advantage of programming its multitasking machines to produce complex geometries.

Custom Macro Enables Automated CNC Program Generation

Rex Materials Group uses a custom macro from DP Technology to automate CNC programming.

Adapting to Aerospace Change

The changing demands of aerospace companies have prompted machine shops such as this one to evolve their processes and equipment to become more competitive.

VBA Macros Ease CAM Program Creation

Taking advantage of the open architecture of Esprit CAM software to write Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros simplifies CNC programming at this manufacturer of automotive presses.

Custom CAM Add-ins Automate Threading

The ability to create custom add-ins using the Esprit CAM system’s API and Microsoft’s Visual Basic has significantly reduced thread programming times at this manufacturer of oil and gas industry components.

CAM Software Enables Parking on Axes

DP Technology’s Esprit 2012 CAM software features enhanced turning, milling, turn-mill and wire EDM cycles.

CAM Shortcuts Simplify Lights-Out Burns

A CAM system with an intuitive user interface, adaptable postprocessors and time-saving shortcuts help this manufacturer maximize unattended EDM burn time.

CAM System Simplifies Swiss-Type Lathe Programming

To reduce setup times, this medical device manufacturer replaced its conventional CNC turning and milling machines with Swiss-type lathes. However, taking full advantage of these complex machines’ capabilities required another investment—Esprit CAM software from DP technology.

CAM Developer CEO Forecasts R&D Cash Crunch

Dan Frayssinet, CEO of Esprit CAM software developer DP Technology, predicts tough times ahead for CAM developers.

CAM Software for Mills, Lathes and Wire EDM

Esprit 2011, the latest edition of the company’s CAM software for CNC programming of mills, lathes and wire EDM machines, features system-wide upgrades.

Optimized Tool Paths Save Time, Boost Profits

Faced with inefficient roughing operations on its stamping dies, foundry patterns and other aerospace industry tooling, this manufacturer sought to upgrade its CAM software. The Esprit CAM package from DP Technology helped reduce programming and cycle time by enough to generate a substantial increase in profits.

Operation Library Slashes EDM Electrode Cycle Time

EDM sinker electrodes have complex geometries and must be manufactured to high precision, creating a challenge for CNC programmers. Additionally, because electrodes are produced in small lots, it is important to keep programming time short. The EDM Department, a provider of EDM tooling and contract manufacturing, o

Continuous Turning On Turn-Mills

A new CAM feature continuously manages B-axis head rotation to allow turn-mills to completely turn inner and outer workpiece profiles using a single tool.

Cutting With A 0.001-Inch End Mill

JPL’s Space Instrument Shop does this routinely, but it takes some special equipment and some unusual procedures. Above all, it takes patience.

Another Step Toward CNC Programming Automation

Part designers and part programmers have to think differently. Esprit FX is a development from DP Technology (Camarillo, California) that helps overcome the "disconnect" that occurs when designers pass geometry to CNC programmers. FX stands for "feature exchange." It allows programmers using Esprit CAM software to receive information about the designer's original intent automatically so that part programs can be created more quickly and more accurately.

CAD/CAM Add-In Automates 80 Percent Of NC Programming Tasks

This company designs and builds the molds used to manufacture most of its products. In the past, the company's designers used a 2D CAD software package to create the mold design, and they wrote a series of macros in a 2D CAM system that performed much of the process of converting the design to a CNC program.

New CAM System Reduces Extrusion Die Manufacturing Time

A switch to a new CAM system from DP Technology that enables single setup production reduced the time needed to manufacture extrusion dies from 5 or more days to 2 days at Alcoa Engineered Products.

Slashing Programming Time For Similar Parts

There’s no reinventing the wheel for this shop! It saves machining programs in a knowledge base for use on future jobs.

B-Axis Turn/Mills Have Their Place

The additional rotary milling axis on these machines allows them to complete many types of complex parts in a single setup, but these machines have gained a reputation for being difficult to program. Today’s CAM software, however, eases the programming challenge significantly.

CAM System Cuts Production Time By 50 Percent For Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

Switching to a new Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system has enabled Merck to cut the time required to design, program and machine parts by 50 percent while at the same time greatly increasing the complexity of parts that the company can produce internally.

Getting To Know Knowledge-Based Machining

The term refers to different levels of automation that CAM software developers are building into their NC programming software.

Plugging Into STEP NC

CAM software companies are offering software programs that allow their users to read STEP-NC files into their existing CAM software to generate the tool path and output for specific CNC machines. These "plug-ins" make many of the benefits of STEP-NC available to the average machine shop today.

Advanced CNC Programming Methods Help Manufacturer Meet Tight Deadlines

Nearly every aircraft is prone to tiny cracks that begin at holes used to insert fasteners and that, if not addressed, can eventually migrate from one hole to the next and cause structural failures.

Company Increases Manufacturing Capability With CAM System

This manufacturer is a 'one stop shop' offering custom machining and manufacturing, precision sheet metal work and prototyping, as well as long and short production runs.

Using CAM To Unlock Your Turning Machine's Potential

Armed with multiple spindles, multiple turrets, C-axis control and powered tooling capable of moving in the Y axis, production turning machines today are powerhouses of productivity.

CAM System Shaves Time Off Programming Four-Axis Turning Operation

Command Tooling has become a leading manufacturer of precision CNC toolholders. Its products, primarily end mill, collets and shell mill holders, are designed and manufactured to deliver the extreme gripping pressure that ensures precise tool centering and rigidity.

Programming Multi-Axis Lathes

You're going to need more than the CAM program you're currently using for your standard CNC lathes and mills.

Smart And Efficient

Deft use of macros for 'family-of-features' NC programming allows this compressor manufacturer to do in minutes what once took hours, and get more consistent machining processes in the bargain.

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