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Transcript
00:02
Contura
00:03
Prototyping, a company located in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania
00:07
utilizes simulation to provide their clients
00:09
with comprehensive product development solutions.
00:12
According to their chief operating officer, Andy Loni
00:15
complex assemblies do not take is long to design and test because they can
00:20
now upload everything onto auto desk fusion
00:23
to simulate the actual environment and troubleshoot problems
00:27
features such as a tool path,
00:29
machining, extension and collision avoidance,
00:31
make the process more rapid and agile.
00:38
When everyone thinks of Pittsburgh, they think of this blue collar steel town,
00:41
traditional old dirty manufacturing.
00:44
The people who haven't been in Pittsburgh um for a while or ever,
00:48
don't know how much things have change,
00:55
work with engineers that are trying to achieve very complex goals and make very
00:59
advanced mechanical assemblies and components. And
01:02
what used to take a very long time to figure out because they, they,
01:06
they might have to go get a piece of material
01:08
and start machining it to actually give that feedback.
01:10
Now, we can
01:11
virtually simulate so much of that.
01:14
And one of the big ways we do that is as soon as they come to us to the problem,
01:18
we load it in a fusion 360.
01:20
And uh we pull it up and we can right away start looking at geom trees,
01:24
um measuring different aspects of it,
01:27
making slight changes or starting to
01:29
put it in our machines and see how it'll fit and
01:32
how feasible it is and start giving them feedback right away.
01:35
And what's really important about us having these
01:38
kind of advanced tools for what we're doing
01:40
is we can be so much more agile than what manufacturing used to be known as
01:48
the traditional job shop has
01:50
few programmers and a lot of operators.
01:53
Um So they do, you know, they program a handful of parts a week.
01:57
Um We program a handful of parts a day,
02:01
the machining extension,
02:02
it has collision avoidance and full five axis moves and everything like that.
02:06
So you can really do some really advanced stuff on the CN CS
02:12
with like the steep and shallow tool path, which is extremely powerful.
02:17
So right now this machine is doing our part alignment
02:19
on this casting I spoke about typically that would involve
02:22
like a lot of shimming the part and finding it
02:25
and making it really flat and it takes hours,
02:27
a lot of times it's really stressful
02:29
with fusion 360. The probe does all that work. So it's, it's a huge cost savings.
02:34
We know everyone's on a,
02:35
on a tight timeline and we uh we make sure
02:37
we're using the most cutting edge tools we can.
02:39
Um And, and that's that's why we're using Fusion 360.
02:44
We can usually pass it between from the shop floor to sales to um even, even QC looks at
02:50
it and it really embodies the whole whole agile movement that's in
02:53
uh engineering and you know, such a buzzword in, in that industry,
02:57
no one really thinks of when they think
02:58
of manufacturing is always the old waterfall methodology.
03:01
But uh things are, things are changing pretty quickly.
03:04
Um And that's,
03:05
that's thanks to the advanced Softwares that we have
03:07
like Fusion 360 that we have access to now.
Video transcript
00:02
Contura
00:03
Prototyping, a company located in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania
00:07
utilizes simulation to provide their clients
00:09
with comprehensive product development solutions.
00:12
According to their chief operating officer, Andy Loni
00:15
complex assemblies do not take is long to design and test because they can
00:20
now upload everything onto auto desk fusion
00:23
to simulate the actual environment and troubleshoot problems
00:27
features such as a tool path,
00:29
machining, extension and collision avoidance,
00:31
make the process more rapid and agile.
00:38
When everyone thinks of Pittsburgh, they think of this blue collar steel town,
00:41
traditional old dirty manufacturing.
00:44
The people who haven't been in Pittsburgh um for a while or ever,
00:48
don't know how much things have change,
00:55
work with engineers that are trying to achieve very complex goals and make very
00:59
advanced mechanical assemblies and components. And
01:02
what used to take a very long time to figure out because they, they,
01:06
they might have to go get a piece of material
01:08
and start machining it to actually give that feedback.
01:10
Now, we can
01:11
virtually simulate so much of that.
01:14
And one of the big ways we do that is as soon as they come to us to the problem,
01:18
we load it in a fusion 360.
01:20
And uh we pull it up and we can right away start looking at geom trees,
01:24
um measuring different aspects of it,
01:27
making slight changes or starting to
01:29
put it in our machines and see how it'll fit and
01:32
how feasible it is and start giving them feedback right away.
01:35
And what's really important about us having these
01:38
kind of advanced tools for what we're doing
01:40
is we can be so much more agile than what manufacturing used to be known as
01:48
the traditional job shop has
01:50
few programmers and a lot of operators.
01:53
Um So they do, you know, they program a handful of parts a week.
01:57
Um We program a handful of parts a day,
02:01
the machining extension,
02:02
it has collision avoidance and full five axis moves and everything like that.
02:06
So you can really do some really advanced stuff on the CN CS
02:12
with like the steep and shallow tool path, which is extremely powerful.
02:17
So right now this machine is doing our part alignment
02:19
on this casting I spoke about typically that would involve
02:22
like a lot of shimming the part and finding it
02:25
and making it really flat and it takes hours,
02:27
a lot of times it's really stressful
02:29
with fusion 360. The probe does all that work. So it's, it's a huge cost savings.
02:34
We know everyone's on a,
02:35
on a tight timeline and we uh we make sure
02:37
we're using the most cutting edge tools we can.
02:39
Um And, and that's that's why we're using Fusion 360.
02:44
We can usually pass it between from the shop floor to sales to um even, even QC looks at
02:50
it and it really embodies the whole whole agile movement that's in
02:53
uh engineering and you know, such a buzzword in, in that industry,
02:57
no one really thinks of when they think
02:58
of manufacturing is always the old waterfall methodology.
03:01
But uh things are, things are changing pretty quickly.
03:04
Um And that's,
03:05
that's thanks to the advanced Softwares that we have
03:07
like Fusion 360 that we have access to now.
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