Missler agrees to integrate with Adveon tool library system

By Niraj M Wanikar, Chief Editor, CNCTimes.com, 2014-06-26 15:50:47

After more than 15 years of collaboration with Sandvik Coromant, Missler Software is pleased to announce the upcoming conclusion of a strategic agreement with this company for the integration of the tool library system, Adveon.

Sandvik Coromant is the world's leading supplier of tools, tooling solutions and know-how for the metalworking industry. Smart software with all the necessary functions for the management of cutting parts, collisions and driven points, Adveon provides access, via the Internet, to any supplier's tool library. CAD/CAM productivity is thus increased thanks to the provision of the catalogue including all the relevant information (geometry and cutting conditions).

The target is potentially manufacturing engineering and company workshops equipped with numerically controlled machine tools.

The library allows a whole database of tools to be quickly built and provides automatic access to 3D CAD models for precise simulation and visualization. Manual entry is minimised, ensuring the consistency and quality of data. Adveon, respecting the ISO 13399 standard, simplifies and accelerates CAD/CAM programming. This allows customers to develop their own libraries, quickly build tool assemblies and view the results in 2D or 3D.

Based on new software technologies, TopSolid 7 corresponds to the increasingly broad and general demands of industries. The new generation is the result of over ten years of very intense development that have led to the integration of all the new features that emerged at the dawn of the millennium into the heart of the software, such as parallelisation (MultiCore), the use of PDM, web compatibility, or synthetic imagery. The first mechanical engineering customers installed have already seen an increase in productivity of 20-30%.

A major advantage of TopSolid'Cam is its native PDM for managing the life cycles of machined parts and cutting tools.

Mr Dominique Laffret, VP Strategic Partnerships at Missler Software, declared: "Very much aware of the 'tools and cutting conditions' issue for users of CAD/CAM and numerically controlled machine tools, Missler Software made a commitment with Sandvik Coromant when offered the chance to collaborate on a new software approach.

Adveon is an innovative solution for building your own library of tools from the ISO 13399 standard. Directly linked to the supplier tool database, the user can quickly and simply compile catalog tools that they can then order. There is therefore no risk of generating a tool that does not exist. Once this operation is complete, the operator will find them in their own TopSolid'Cam database. As the interface carries all the properties of tools (driven points, cutting parts, attachment type and position or output lengths), they can be used immediately in TopSolid'Cam. Updates and customer modifications are, of course, managed.

The time savings and increased safety generated by this kind of collaboration go without saying. For some time now, computer-aided technologies have not been limited to simply generating paths. It is our duty to take all manufacturing stakeholders into account in order to increase productivity by reducing the risk of error and providing simple tools that can perform complex operations."

Mr Klas Forsström, president of Sandvik Coromant comments: “Pressure to reduce time from design to production combined with the ever-increasing complexity of tools makes rapid access to accurate and current tool data more critical than ever. Companies can no longer afford to rely on manual data entry and operators need a single tool library that can manage tools from multiple manufacturers. Adveon has been designed from the ‘ground up’ to address these challenges and we are pleased that Top Solid software has integrated the tool library system.”

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