
A break from the normal tech blog, I wanted to communicate the value we can add to you, the customer.
MECAD Manufacturing is the only complete engineering software provider in the country specializing in ensuring that you have the highest return on investment not only in your software purchase but also in terms of customer satisfaction and cost control.
Allow me to break-down the individual business benefits of using MECAD Manufacturing software products.
- A One-stop shop for everything from design and simulation through to initial material processing and shop-floor control and finally to precision machining. Whether you are using traditional cross-brand CNC machines, or you have made the leap to robotic manufacture.
- These global market leading products ensure that you remain on the forefront of technology and innovation thanks to the market leading customer community. Our product principals listen to you, the end-user, and constantly develop our products accordingly to ensure that we are optimizing efficiency and effectiveness throughout your business.
- We add value to everything from increasing turnover, through material and human resource usage and finally to cost and profit control. This visibility allows you to manage customer expectations on the front end thereby guaranteeing customer satisfaction while increasing long term sustainable profitability throughout your value adding process and ultimately driving shareholder value.
- We back these products with the best and widest coverage of product support people throughout South Africa. With three strategically located premises we are able to service our clients both remotely and on-site with the most knowledgeable professionals in the industry. We prioritize our subscription customers thereby increasing and rewarding customer loyalty. The success of our business depends on the success of yours and we will never forget that.
- Our training programs both on-line and at all three locations are specifically designed and delivered to enhance your product knowledge and maximise your usage in order to drive this value through your business.
Global engineering statistics show that on average a job cost can be broken down as follows:

Our complete range of engineering software is focused on making your steel cutting and fabrication process more efficient and using that data to provide visibility throughout your business. But let’s get down to the nitty-gritty, reducing your time to process a job has an impact on 75% of that job’s cost and should therefore be the focus of our efforts to add value to your business. Programming CNC machines and reducing your cutting time is where we add the most value with user friendly interfaces and logical process steps as well as realistic and reliable simulation. Any time you can simulate a job and trust that the collision detection and cutting times that you see are accurate before you post the job to the machine, you will save money or make your business more competitive in a tough economic environment. Yes, but what about reducing the wear on the machine and tools as well as material waste? We have that covered too with Dynamic motion tool paths that optimize feeds and speeds as well as carry the heat away from the tool and part we can reduce cutting times while reducing the load on the machine and tool. As for material waste, with remnant tracking we can ensure that you are maximizing the material usage while reducing stock tracking time.
So, to summarize the business process range that we will add value to, everything from quoting your customer to invoice and delivery with stock control, every form of cutting, machining and secondary processes in between. Providing accurate costing and visibility throughout. This allows you to be competitive but also to manage the expectations of your customers and deliver superior customer service.