Progress Air (Hoxton Park, NSW) makes sheetmetal parts for air-conditioning systems, servicing the local HVAC & R industry for more than 16 years. In June 2012 the company bought a plasma cutter and installed Autodesk Fabrication Camduct to run it.
Director Rod Peters says “Our production levels have gone through the roof now, it’s incredible,” Moreover, the company managed to cut the monthly material expenses by more than half, mainly due to the nesting function, which leverages the mathematical processing power of the PC to optimise material usage and reduce cost.
Autodesk Fabrication Camduct software can work easily with all standard 2D and 3D CAD formats, link to a central material inventory and work order database, create highly optimised nests of all materials and thicknesses within a single job and cut better parts. It can also print easily labels to help identify the parts.
Mr Peters is very pleased with ART’s service and training and says that it only took about two hours to run the first job on the machine after installation – because he ordered the software beforehand and was ready to go once the machine was delivered and installed. “It was my idea to get familiar with the software while the machine was being built,” he concludes. “I recommend that to everyone. This way, we had virtually no downtime and only had to familiarise ourselves with the machine functions.”
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