Boosting efficiency of mold and tool & die production
Anchor Danly is a leading international manufacturer and distributor of high quality die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications. Their products are used in tools, dies, and molds for metal working and plastics injection molding, machine bases, mining & construction equipment, and general fabrications.
THE CLIENT
Company: Anchor Danly
Headquarters: Windsor, ON, Canada
Industry: Metal Working industries
THE OBJECTIVE
Make machining operations associated with the
production of tooling components and fixtures as
efcient as possible to increase spindle uptime
while simultaneously controlling costs through
more accurate estimating/quoting, improved
quality, less scrap/rework, and the elimination of
paper and printing costs.
THE SOLUTION
Implement CAMWorks and CAMWorks
ShopFloor machining software to take
advantage of the solutions’ seamless
integration with SOLIDWORKS 3D modeling
software, feature-based recognition
capabilities, machining simulation/ estimating
tools, shop floor access to model data, and
extensive knowledge database.
“In 2005, Anchor Danly started evaluating other CAM packages, we were impressed with CAMWorks® because of the automatic feature recognition capabilities and technology database”.