Intelligent Automatic Nesting

HIGHLIGHTS OF P.E.P.’S AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE ILLUSION #1 - Which nest (A or B) has 11% better yield? Can you pick the nest with the best yield from nest A and B? If your software generated the wrong nest and your programmer did not catch it then your company lost 20% in material (11 parts), and possibly 30% in machine productivity. Can anyone pick the best material yield by merely looking at the nest, the answer is NO, you need to count the parts. Automatically nesting the parts multiple ways and saving the best result is what great software does automatically. ILLUSION #2 - How important is part rotation to material yield? Interlocking the parts as shown below right yields 7 more parts per sheet (24.13% better material yield). Furthermore, by sequencing the nest and strategically assigning the lead-ins 200 head raises were eliminated. Could your programmer have manually created the same nest, rotating and interlocking the parts. It’s very unlikely. Automatic nesting results like the results in the lower left are typical of most automatic nesting engines, and consequently jobs like this go to the shop every day when the programmer does not have the TIME to re-nest the parts manually. Brand-X automatic results P.E.P. Technology's fully automatic mode