CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 October 2007
Product News
New CENIT Software for Automated Generation of Die Forming Trimming Tools in CATIA V5
At this year's European CATIA Forum in Paris (ECF, November 6-7, 2007), CENIT introduces its CAA software TRIM STEEL EXPERT, the first fully CATIA V5 integrated solution for the automated generation of trimming tools used in the sheet metal and plastics die forming industry. The software replaces hitherto necessary manual processes, thus reducing response time to product changes. In addition, the application also generates cast bodies and surfaces as separate elements for an optimized design and construction process. Users profit from an easy-to-use add-on simulation function of the end result, such as the intrusion of the trim steel into the metal sheet.
Kurt Bengel, Member of the Executive Board at CENIT, underlines: "Compared to the traditional manual design and construction process of trimming tools, our customers profit from time savings and thus also from cost cuts in 3 development areas: tool surfaces, design of the cast body blank as well as in milling processes through detailed raw part description." An additional advantage is, according to Bengel, the facilitated storage of entrepreneurial and process specific data: "Trimming profiles, generated through TRIM STEEL EXPERT, can be stored within a library, administered and re-used at any time. Thus, future product development stages or product changes can easily be realized."
TRIM STEEL EXPERT was developed in close cooperation with iCapp. The solution is based on Dassault Systèmes CAA V5 platform and thus fully integrated in V5. This allows the direct use of native CATIA data and therefore also the full integration within the overall process of tool planning and design. Existing data management processes do not have to be converted. "Our experience is derived from many years as CATIA development partner of Dassault Systèmes" explains Jos Verbakel, product manager at CENIT, the development of TRIM STEEL EXPERT .
The new software is another important addition to the yet extensive portfolio of the PLM specialist CENIT, that already features a variation of innovative solutions for the tool engineering industry, such as: electrode generation, analysis of thickness or tolerance. But additional CENIT add-ons for CATIA used in production processes (3D Laser, contour and surface processing, wire cutting) and product data management also lead to a highly efficient design and development of products.
The PLM specialists will present the CENIT CAA software portfolio, including the new solution TRIM STEEL EXPERT, at the exhibition accompanying the European CATIA Forum of Dassault Systèmes in Paris from November 6-7, 2007 ( http://www.ecforum.com/ ).
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