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Accuracy Means A Productive Future
In the world of manufacturing, today's programmers face several problems that can significantly affect their production. The manufacturing industry requires fast and accurate programming for every job. With the ever increasing pressure of global competition, today's job shops face the challenge of achieving the highest quality in the shortest time. Fortunately, when armed with the right software, the toughest challenges become less daunting while helping programmers maximize their potential.

Peak NC Limited, located in the United Kingdom, is knowledgeable in programming a variety of complex parts and dedicated to providing outstanding customer care. With well over 30 years experience, the company is comprised of a dedicated team of CNC programmers who share a strong company culture of integrity, flexibility, and enthusiasm for the job.

Many of Peak NC's clients are within the aerospace sector, in addition to many other manufacturing industries, such as oil exploration, hydraulics, auto sport, medical devices and satellite technology. Customers range from small, highly specialized precision engineering firms to household names in international aerospace production, such as Airbus and Rolls Royce.

Peak NC specializes in the programming of five-axis components and high-speed machining, providing a fast and accurate programming service for both extreme projects and everyday manufacturing needs. The company continually meets unusual machining challenges spanning an extensive range of component types and materials, giving the company many successes over a multitude of industries. Regardless of the complexity of the job, the company can provide on-site support as an additional part of the service.

Why NCL...
Due to the sheer variety of the work undertaken, a subcontract programming company is possibly the most demanding environment for any CAM system. "For us, a CAM system has to be easy enough to use so that we can program simple components very quickly, but still have the power to handle very complex projects. It has to be able to handle components of many different types, made from many different materials, and many different machine tools", states Lucy Butler, Director of Peak NC Ltd.

"For example, we are able to use the standard machining routines to handle the most common operations for regularly reoccurring complex features or to employ unique machining strategies we define ourselves using macros, loops and data structures", states Lucy. These capabilities reduce programming time thereby, increasing the company's overall productivity and profits.

Another important feature of the system is NCL/IPV (In-Process-Verification) an integrated numerical control simulation and verification module. NCL/IPV is a fast and accurate way to simulate the material removal process of NC toolpaths. The user can instantly verify toolpaths at any time during a NCL CAM session. It interactively simulates, verifies, and displays the metal removal process of NC toolpaths as they are being created. During and after the metal removal process, the cut model can be viewed from any orientation, cross-sectioned, inspected, and compared to an existing solid model. In addition, NCL/IPV can verify existing tool paths from NCL or other CAM systems. NCL/IPV significantly reduces the need for costly tape prove-outs and insures accurate, efficient, and safe NC programs.

With these benefits, Peak NC concludes that NCL easily handles its five-axis work. NCL's wide range of capabilities brings confidence in building successful parts. The fact that NCL is a language based system, where each and every motion is under the programmer's absolute control, is critical when working on the extreme five-axis jobs. With NCL, the programmers at Peak NC can very easily adapt its machining methods to suit the needs of the particular client, machine tool or component. "We have achieved significant time-savings due to NCL's tool control capability", says Lucy.

This unique combination of automation and discreet tool control ensures that the programs that Peak NC delivers to their clients will be accurate and run efficiently on their machines.

Some of the recent jobs Peak NC have programmed using NCL's five-axis software package include aluminum airframe assemblies, titanium aero engine parts and nuclear components made from high grade steels. The airframe components are for aircraft as diverse as a small lightweight passenger jet to the new A380 super jumbo. High volume production meant that demanding targets for both cycle time and material usage had to be met. The extremely complex aero engine and nuclear component projects benefited from NCL's complete and precise control over tool axis vectors, with finished components being machined to very tight tolerances.

Contributed by:
Peak NC Limited
Lucy Butler - lucy@peak-nc.co.uk

If you would like to have your company featured in the NCL Newsletter, please contact Raquelle Sprague at raquelle@nccs.com or (949) 852-3664.

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Product Highlights

Aerospace Applications
A new version of the AAL (Aerospace Application Library) has been released for use with NCL V9.6. The AAL is a library of macros that facilitate the programming of structural aerospace components. Examples include macros for:

Machining various types of flange top features Machining cutouts and bores Hole making operations (drill, bore, tap, ream, etc.) Toolpath entry and exit strategies Creating and machining various types of tooling tabs Machining joggle features Machining corner features Creating stock geometry ...and more
Download the latest version from www.nccs.com or email support@nccs.com and we will send it to you. back

Words of Wisdom...

"A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea"
- Victor Hugo 1802-85, French Poet, novelist and playwright

"In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once."
- Tony Benn, 1925-, British Labour politician

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Class Schedule - Corporate Headquarters

	NCL General Programming September 8-12, 2008 October 20-24, 2008 December 1-5, 2008 January 26-30, 2009 NCL/IPV September 15-16, 2008 October 27-28, 2008 December 8-9, 2008 PostWorks September 17-19, 2008 October 29-31, 2008 December 10-12, 2008

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