Advance Thermal Corp, based in Bensenville, Illinois, manufacture removable insulation blankets from a variety of materials. They purchased a Humantec (rebranded Zund) knife cutter in 2004. Almost every job that Advance Thermal produce is unique, which cause considerable problems for the CAM system provided with the machine.
Andrew Powell, IT Manager explained; “The old system did have rudimentary batch processing capabilities, however the problems occurred when there were issues with the CAD files. If the system did pick up a problem it would not document it, so I had to manually check the files, which often took around an hour per day, with around 15-20 errors occurring per week. Errors also often went unreported and would be discovered far down the production line, after considerable labor had been done on the part and causing the part to be scrapped.”
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