Leading CADCAM developer Delcam, in association with its reseller TCM, is to hold a free workshop on high-speed and five-axis machining for Mexican toolmakers and production machining companies looking to invest in this technology or to improve the productivity of their existing equipment. The workshop will be held on 12th July at the ITESM university in Monterrey.

As well as giving greater productivity, high-speed machining offers many benefits, in particular the ability to cut the hardened steels needed in toolmaking and the more difficult materials used in the aerospace industry. In many cases, the use of high-speed machining techniques can significantly reduce, or even eliminate, hand finishing, so reducing costs, shortening delivery times and increasing quality.

Five-axis machining also offers many advantages, including the ability to manufacture components in fewer set-ups and so increase productivity, and the possibility of using shorter cutters and so improve quality and reduce hand finishing.

Despite these benefits, both technologies have, until recently, been used mainly by larger companies in the aerospace industry. Other potential users have been discouraged by the higher price of the equipment and the complexity of the programming required.

Now both these barriers are being reduced. The price of 5-axis machines has fallen so that they are now much more affordable for smaller companies. At the same time, developments in Delcam’s PowerMILL machining software have made the programming of 5-axis operations much easier and quicker.

For further information please contact: -
Juan Gonzalez Luna, Managing Director
Phone: 52 33 3627 3297/8/9
e-mail: marketing@tcm.com.mx
T.C.M.
Circunvalacion Poniente 285C
Cuidad Granja, Zapopan,
Jalisco, C.P. 45010, Mexico
www.tcm.com.mx

Peter Dickin, Public Relations Manager
Direct phone: 44 (0)121 683 1081 e-mail: marketing@delcam.com
Delcam plc
Small Heath Business Park,
Birmingham, B10 0HJ, UK
www.delcam.co.uk

Delcam Inc.
3270 Electricity Drive
Windsor, Ont. N8W 5J1 Canada
www.delcam.com