A few
days ago, LEDAS issued a press-release which announced that in the last financial year the company attracted ever more software development from global
CAM market. It looks like the interest of the CAM market in LEDAS is not
accidental: at least this can be somehow confirmed by a quote of Alexey Ershov, CEO LEDAS:
Unlike
the CAD market in which a few dominant vendors earn billions of dollars a year,
the CAM arena is spread among dozens of mid-size and hundreds of small
companies providing niche solutions. This is due to the variety in capabilities
of machines from many hardware vendors, and so this diversity requires
development of an assortment of software, each one narrowly specialized.
Machining companies put on the market brand new manufacturing devices and are
often primarily focused on the hardware. Only later do they see that advanced
software is needed to unleash the full potential of their hardware. These
companies find it is easier to contract software development services from a
company like LEDAS than to write it in-house. LEDAS has proven experience in
this field, and so is highly qualified and more cost effective than for
hardware firms to set up their own software development divisions, and then
hire and train new employees within this area of specialization.
The
LEDAS experience in providing services for the CAM domain is illustrated by a
list of some relevant programming projects completed successfully by the
company (more details and references can be received by request to info@ledas.com):
- Automated nest destruction and nest processing for composites and sheet metal,
- Distributed manufacturing order processing and material lifecycle management for composites and sheet metal,
- Motion simulation, and collision control for mold design,
- Path calculator for laser welding and engraving,
- Cylindrical feature processing for milling and drilling,
- Automated unloading of sheet material parts,
- Automatic migration of new GUIs for complex CAM systems.
As part
of his upcoming September tour to meet several European customers of LEDAS,
Alexey Ershov will attend a number of CAM-related exhibitions:
- 18, Wednesday, Stuttgart, Composites Europe,
- 19, Thursday, Essen, SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN,
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