CAM Assist
Mastercam meets AI
CAM Assist redefines precision in manufacturing by integrating advanced AI with Mastercam, automating CAM programming to increase speed, efficiency, and accuracy. This powerful tool ensures substantial cost reductions and faster production times, enabling manufacturers to exceed competitive demands with superior precision and quicker turnaround.
What is CAM Assist?
AI-powered efficiency
CAM Assist is an AI-driven plugin for Mastercam that automates complex programming tasks, transforming manufacturing processes.
This tool enables the rapid and accurate creation of precise machining strategies, leading to a significant reduction in programming time while improving overall machine efficiency.
It is designed to seamlessly integrate, making it an indispensable asset for enhancing productivity and operational capabilities in any manufacturing setting.
Product-specific advantages of CAM Assist
Enhance your capabilities
With CAM Assist, increase your quoting capacity by over four times by leveraging AI to provide rapid, accurate cycle time estimates. This functionality allows you to respond to client demands more quickly and accurately, securing more business by demonstrating capability and efficiency in your operations.
CAM Assist revolutionises fixture design by enabling the creation of custom soft jaw setups in seconds, significantly reducing setup times from CAD to cutting. This not only boosts your workshop's throughput but also allows your team to focus on producing more parts with less downtime, enhancing overall productivity.
By automating up to 80% of CAM programming, CAM Assist drastically cuts down the time and effort traditionally required in programming. This elevation in process efficiency allows your programmers to focus on refining production processes and increasing output, multiplying the overall productivity of your operations.
Employ AI to significantly enhance the accuracy of your machining processes. CAM Assist's cutting parameters are optimised for each unique operation, drastically reducing scrap rates and ensuring that setups meet stringent quality standards right from the start, thereby saving costs and enhancing product quality.
Operational benefits of CAM Assist
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Accelerate contract acquisition
CAM Assist’s AI-driven estimation tools dramatically simplify and accelerate the quotation process, often the most time-consuming task for shop owners. By automating these estimations, CAM Assist allows for a greater volume of accurately assessed contracts, enhancing your ability to secure new business efficiently.
Unblock Production Delays
Reduce the critical time from CAD to component by up to seven times, enabling your programmers to create multiple programs per day. This capability ensures that production never stalls due to programming delays, keeping your operations smooth and continuously productive.
Boost Team Productivity
Address the critical industry challenge of skilled labor shortages by enhancing the productivity of your existing workforce. CAM Assist equips your team with advanced tools to perform more efficiently, effectively raising the output and capacity of your current staffing levels without the need for extensive increases in headcount.
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Frequently asked questions
CAM Assist leverages deep machine learning to understand the intricate rules and physics of machining, generating numerous possible manufacturing approaches for a component. It considers your unique setup—part, fixture, tooling, and machine—to quickly simulate and narrow down the best operational strategies, directly integrating them into your CAM package. This typically achieves about 80% completion, leaving room for final adjustments.
Unlike feature-based machining, which relies on predefined macros for specific features, CAM Assist employs AI to fully understand and optimise the entire machining process. It offers comprehensive, adaptive strategies that improve over time, making it more flexible and effective, particularly in dynamic manufacturing environments where versatility is key.
CAM Assist licenses are tied to individual CAM seats, requiring one license per active user, in accordance with our fair usage policy.
CAM Assist is compatible with most CNC milling machines. It integrates machine parameters from your CAM package or requires manual input of machine specs if not predefined.
The CAM Assist Cutting Parameters AI dynamically calculates optimal feeds and speeds based on your machine’s characteristics, tooling, and materials. Users can fine-tune these parameters for each toolpath operation, adapting them to the specific requirements of each job.
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