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operations. With the post-pro-
cessor in place, Paragon Med- Benefits:
ical – Southington program- • Switching to ESPRIT has reduced the time required to
mers treat the laser as if it were program complex parts from about three days to one day,
an ordinary cutting tool. helping Paragon Medical – Southington achieve proportional
ESPRIT then automatically
generates the G-code instruc- time savings on a wide range of other parts.
tions for the laser and metal • The time required to test the program of the machine is also
cutting operations needed to greatly reduced because simulation typically helps get the
produce the part. program right the first time.
Akerley then tentatively as-
signed the operations to spin- • The company has achieved significant cycle time reductions
Switching
to ESPRIT dles and simulated the com- by identifying idle time during the simulation and modifying
reduced the plete machining operation, so the program to make it more efficient.
time required he could visualize exactly how
to program the operations were flowing
complex
parts from and also determine if any time a mouse,” Akerley says. He used these parts from about three
about three was being wasted. a regrip operation to move the days to one day, and we have
days to one “We can reorder operations, stock from the main spindle to achieved proportional time
day, and the move operations from one the sub-spindle so the 12-inch savings on a wide range of
company spindle to another and sync slot could be fully machined. other parts,” he adds. “This rep-
achieved
proportional operations so they start at the “Switching to ESPRIT reduced resents a major time saving
time savings same time with a few clicks of the time required to program and the time required to test
on a wide the program of the machine is
range of also greatly reduced because
other parts.
simulation helps us nearly al-
ways get the program right
the first time. We have also
achieved significant cycle time
reductions by identifying idle
time during the simulation
and modifying the program
to make switching to ESPRIT
efficient. All
it more
all,
in
Source: ESPRIT has helped efficiency of our
us
significantly
the
increase
Small holes cut on part with the L2000 laser cutting system. machining options.”
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