Repeatable machine tool error can be eliminated with ShadowMap

Chino Hills, California – Shadow Automation, Inc., has released one of a kind software to save older machine-tools, meeting and extending their planned life expectancy. Major capital expenditures like machine-tools are amortized as much as 10 years or more, therefore defining its intended life span. However, financial business planning and machine-tool usage can conflict with time.

In normal to heavy machine-tool production, machines will wear, especially when machining exotic materials. First article inspection reveals errors, causing many programming man-hours to fine-tune machine tool programs by adding or subtracting a few thousandths of an inch to the programmed coordinates.

Now you can have this done for you automatically, reliably, and consistently with ShadowMap. With an independent laser measurement, your computer can quickly adjust every part program to reduce the errors of every machine.

ShadowMap reads industry standard APT CL machining programs, along with the error map of the machine to run the program, and then a new APT CL program is created with all of the coordinates adjusted correctly. Use your existing post-processors and communications methods.

Optodyne, Inc. www.optodyne.com provides inexpensive error mapping lasers and/or services, to generate the origin of ShadowMap.