It was nice having something to give accurate cycle times so I could play around with different things on a part that is running to try and speed things up. You can put in your work coordiantes, so travelling between fixture stations and how far to tool change position can be accounted for.
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I haven't actually bought it and used it a bunch yet, but I did a two week trial of NCPlot, which was at least fairly accurate.
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For example if something needs recutting 3 out of 4 times and a extra finish pass taking 10 minutes saves measuring twice and manually recutting taking a hour math says it is worth the program change of increased 10 minutes over the increased hour it was taking beforeĬam software is not going to know if you need extra finish passes to hold a tolerance or cam software is not going to mention increased setup times with a particular setup Excel average time of last 10 times a part was run with the longest and shortest times and if you record why the longer times it can be useful to troubleshoot why the longer times were needed. Using excel software of course i can also record times of the last few times a job was run and have excel calculate average time in a millisecond.
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I seen many a job where the "little things" took longer to do than the actual machining time. Setup time, measuring, deburring, recuts, cleanup it all adds time. I record time i start job and i record time i completed job. I have often timed a reduced slower feed taking 2 seconds longer per hole and 5 minutes longer per part but part average time was actually hours faster cause broken tools were causing extreme delays.ĬAM software does not predict broken tool recovery times my experience is if you break a drill bit that eats up hugh amounts of time recovering. I use a Mazak where default tool retract clearance is 2.0" inches or more but at 800 ipm rapids it is a blink of a eye. This could also be the inverse where maybe the machines have a large clearance height parameter in them and your software isn't using one. Cycle times i quote based on CAM cycle time are always faster.You may look into how your programs are setup versus how your software is calculating the drill times to see if it's just a simple parameter that needs changed. Both of the machines i run i set the clearance height after retract to. Though let me explain why, it may help solve your issue. The cycle time calculation in Esprit is very accurate. for example if something needs recutting 3 out of 4 times and a extra finish pass taking 10 minutes saves measuring twice and manually recutting taking a hour math says it is worth the program change of increased 10 minutes over the increased hour it was taking beforeĬAM software is not going to know if you need extra finish passes to hold a tolerance or CAM software is not going to mention increased setup times with a particular setup excel average time of last 10 times a part was run with the longest and shortest times and if you record why the longer times it can be useful to troubleshoot why the longer times were needed. Using Excel software of course i can also record times of the last few times a job was run and have excel calculate average time in a millisecond. i seen many a job where the "little things" took longer to do than the actual machining time. setup time, measuring, deburring, recuts, cleanup it all adds time. i record time i start job and i record time i completed job. Is there any software that is better to determine total run times for parts to better quote jobs?. It is making it hard to price certain jobs and operation options in the shop.
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Is there any software that will be accurate on parts cycle time? I program with Mcamx now and while most of the cycle time on parts is accurate, when it comes to jobs with a lot of drilling, its total run time is very in accurate.