In a climate where the news is regularly dominated by organisations shutting down, reducing their staff size or cancelling events and projects, it is heartening to hear that significant developments are still taking place.
Since 1988, the Brighton-Based UK arm of the global technology company CGTech has provided sales support and technical services for the company’s globally renowned independent computer numerical control (CNC) simulation and optimisation software, VERICUT. And the company has recently announced the latest iteration of the software.
VERICUT, in the words of UK managing director Tony Shrewsbury, ‘is used to simulate machining operations to detect errors, potential collisions or areas of inefficiency. VERICUT enables manufacturing companies to correct errors before the program is ever loaded on the CNC machine, which also eliminates time-consuming manual prove-outs. The software also optimises the NC program to remove or minimise inefficiencies.
‘When a company invests in VERICUT, they are not just buying a software program; they are teaming up with a manufacturing partner with the largest group of CNC machining experts in the world.
‘For over 30 years VERICUT has been protecting the significant investments required by manufacturing companies to make these parts and driving up the machining efficiency, allowing them to make more parts in less time. The drive for efficiency gains is seen in every industry sector, but most noticeably within the aerospace industry.’
According to Aerospace Manufacturing Magazine, VERICUT 9.1 ‘raises the bar for CNC simulation once again with several new cutting-edge features that increase efficiency and empower users to do more in less time.’
The article continues: ‘New visibility options, plus enhancements to toolpath optimisation, Additive Manufacturing, tooling & Multi-tool Stations, measuring & Inspection/Reporting are just a few of the noteworthy features in this latest release. Hundreds of customer-driven improvements and software requests were also incorporated in this latest version.’
Explaining how the company develops from one version of the software to the next, Shrewsbury emphasises the importance of listening to customers:
‘The ongoing development of VERICUT is heavily structured upon industry feedback gained from direct customer contact and user group events we organise across the globe. These are two-way seminars that allow customers to find out what we are planning for the next version of the software and where they can put forward requests and suggestions for improvements. It allows us to create a development road map to match their requirements.’
