Alfa Laval Purchases Seats of CAMWorks

Alfa Laval , a manufacturer and supplier of heat transfer and fluid handling equipment to a broad industrial marketplace has recently purchased two CAMWorks® 2011 2.5 axis mill/turn seats for its Champs Products operation in Sarasota, Florida from Geometric, a leader in developing advanced manufacturing software. CAMWorks® 2011, is the latest version of its solid-based CNC programming solution.

Champ Products manufactures standard and custom heat exchangers for OEM engine manufacturers and was acquired by Alfa Laval in 2010. Champ Products' unique shell-and-tube and plate heat exchangers are designed for marine, mobile equipment and industrial applications.

CAMWorks 2011 is intended to be a more focused upgrade in the CAMWorks line and provide significant new capabilities including enhanced automation, improved knowledge-based machining information, smarter tool paths, and more. This version includes VoluMill® the ultra high-performance toolpath plug-in engine for high speed milling for 2 .5 axis and 3 axis roughing operations. Feature Recognition, which is used to automatically identify areas to be machined, has been upgraded to find more features, while decreasing computation times by more than 50% over previous CAMWorks versions. 

Additional enhancements with CAMWorks 2011 include improved performance and enhanced feature recognition of slot features with fillet and taper as well as slots with islands. Users can now define customized turn inserts when it is not possible to completely machine a turn part using a standard turn insert line diamond, square, etc. Such custom turn inserts can be defined for inner as well as outer diameter.