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iMachining: for your speed needs

iMachining: for your speed needs

Customer Name: Empire Bakery Machines Pvt Ltd, Ludhiana
 

Empire Bakery Machines Pvt Ltd, based in Ludhiana (Punjab, India), is one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of machinery used in bakeries such as cookie depositors, rotary rack ovens, planetary mixers, cookie drop machines and much more. Their clientele is spread across the entire country and even extends to other areas of Asia, Australia, Africa and North America. They were incorporated in 2004 and since then their manufacturing facility has expanded to include 4 VMCs and 3 turning centres.  

Until December 2016, the engineers at Empire Bakery Machines used manual methods to program their CNC machines. When SolidCAM first approached them, they were very reluctant to switch to a CAM system for their programming needs. They’d been programming their machines manually for more than a decade and had achieved optimisation and stability in that. However, it was agreed that SolidCAM would provide a benchmark on any one of their parts.

The chosen part had been in production since 2010 and the engineers there had managed to carry out significant cycle time reduction and bring it down to 2 hours and 34 minutes. However, the same part when programmed using iMachining was machined in 31 minutes.

After this demonstration, within a month they had programmed all their existing VMCs using SolidCAM. Earlier a part that would take three shifts to machine, was now finished in only one shift, thanks to iMachining. Moreover, they decided not to purchase an additional VMC which they had been planning to install in order to increase production. Automation in programming allowed them to increase the productivity of their existing machines, thus saving them the trouble of buying and setting up a new one.

Empire Bakery Machines was the first iMachining user in Punjab and to this day they use it for its optimised toolpaths and cutting parameters.

 

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