Sureway Metals Success Story

. TRAPPED PART SEQUENCE ISSUES – picture #2 - part sequence #29 and #31 Part 29 and 31 are examples of trapped parts with no where for the heat to dissipate because the parts left, right, above and below have been cut. Trapped part often end up being bad. . UN-NECESSARY HEAD RAISES The trapped parts, tipped parts, left side piercing, etc. require the head to be raised or it will be damaged. This will increase the run time by several seconds per rapid. . EXCESSIVE RAPID TRAVEL DISTANCE – picture #2 - part sequence #29 and #31 The cut sequence jumps back and forth, up and down, sometimes traveling to the opposite edge of the plate (48 inches). . OTHER OUT OF SEQUENCE ISSUES – picture #2 – sequence #14, 32, 37, 38 Some of the parts are inside other parts making them trapped parts, they should have been cut prior to the larger parts. As much as everyone tries to make things look nice, this nest is almost completely unusable. The scrap clearance is insufficient compounded drastically by poor sequencing and incorrect starting locations. In my opinion this nest would take 10-15 minutes to make a usable cutting pattern. While this nest is pretty, it’s totally unusable! After programming with PEP for several years I can confidently say that 99% of the time PEP will create a proper sequence that can be cut successfully with the shortest possible rapid path from the fully automatic results. PEP’s ability to strategically assign the lead ins after the parts have been nested are proven to help reduce these long unnecessary rapid paths, control heat, and get great part quality. When we originally looked at sigmanest, these were many of the items we identified as problematic which made PEP technology an easy decision. Picture #2 I took the liberty of numbering the cut sequence of the parts to help show the many issues with the Sigmanest program. The colored parts highlight some of the many issues with the rapid travers from top to bottom and left to right.