Manufacturing Industry

CAD/CAM AND COLLABORATIVE DESIGN OUTLOOK: DELCAM HELPS ENHANCE CAM SOFTWARE FOR MACHINING.

Manufacturing Automation, November, 2004

The PowerMill CAM software from Delcam plc (Birmingham, England, 44-121-766-5544; Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 800-664-3506)(www.delcam.com) has helped the Proton KR motorcycle team derive key benefits from five-axis machining. The implementation of such software and the move to five-axis machining has enabled the company to bring more of manufacturing work in house, afforded engineers more freedom, and allowed mots of the components for the bike's frame to be machined from solid instead of being fabricated.

Proton KR, which is owned and managed by biking legend and triple World Championship winning rider Kenny Roberts, is the only independent team taking part in the current motorcycle Grand Prix season. Unlike the other teams, which race on bikes supplied by the...

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