Machine Nunn
Machining High-Quality Parts is Now What’s Driving the Nunn Brothers After nearly 20 years working the pits at NASCAR race tracks and race shops, building and maintaining high-speed race cars, brothers James and Joseph Nunn opened their own machine shop in 2015 in a 6,000-square-foot building James and his wife Shelly built in Statesville, NC. […]
GK Machine Company, Inc.
Two-Code Stream Machine Environment for Streamlined Machining In order to fulfill customer demand and meet production deadlines, GK Machine Company invested in a host of manual and multiaxis machines including a mill-turn center with simultaneous 5-axis machining capability. With so many machines running at the same time, the company significantly reduced machining time by implementing […]
Catawba Valley Community College
Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) in Hickory, North Carolina, relies on Mastercam to train the local workforce, close the skills gap, and help improve the area economy. Quick Facts: Product Used: Mastercam Mill, Mastercam for SOLIDWORKS, Dynamic Motion, Educational Suite, Multiaxis Industry: Education Project Details The Challenge: Find a powerful, easy-to-use CAD/CAM software that prepares […]
Chippewa Valley Technical College
When Local Industry Gets Involved Most of the students graduating from the Machine Tooling Technics program at Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) have earned a position or internship with one of the many manufacturing shops and plants in their surrounding Eau Claire, Wisconsin community. Their instructor, Dave Thompson, has provided his students with a curriculum […]
Desert View High School Advanced Manufacturing Program
Area Teens Offered Advanced Manufacturing Program Sunnyside, Arizona’s Desert View High School is located in an area heavily populated by lower-income Latino immigrants. Students have found opportunities and diverse career paths through the school’s Advanced Manufacturing Program and the efforts of its dedicated teacher, Cesar Gutierrez. Quick Facts: Product Used: Mastercam Educational Suite, Dynamic Motion […]
Stewart-Haas Racing and Mastercam Dynamic Motion
Where the Rubber Meets the Road Stewart-Haas Racing is the mechanical support behind multiple winning NASCAR teams. As the company continues to grow, so does its manufacturing workload. The machining team at Stewart-Haas recently began producing more parts in-house, preferring to take advantage of its own abilities. The additional machining was made possible through a […]
3D-Machine, Inc.
New CAM toolpath cuts hoist drum production time by 83 percent Before using Mastercam Lathe Custom Thread toolpath, producing a hoist drum—including machine set up, tooling, and machining—took at least 40 hours. With the CAM toolpath, 3D-Machine, Inc. produced the part in just seven hours. Quick Facts Product Used: Mill, Mill-Turn, Lathe, Multiaxis Industry: Tool […]
Specialized Bicycle Components
Bicycle Manufacturer Relies on CAD/CAM Software to Roll Prototypes to Production Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc., designs and manufactures high-end road, mountain, and general-purpose bikes for a worldwide customer base. Founded in 1974, the California-based company designed and manufactured the first production mountain bike in 1981. Quick Facts: Product Used: Mastercam, Dynamic Motion, Lathe Mill, Multiaxis […]
Lincoln College of Technology Teaches Students CAD/CAM Programming
Lincoln Tech Makes the Grade with Intuitive CAM The Indianapolis-based technical school relies on Mastercam’s ease of use and flexibility to train future programmers and machinists on a variety of CNC machines, improving its students’ odds of building successful careers in manufacturing. Quick Facts: Product Used: Educational Suite, Lathe, Mill, Multiaxis Industry: Education
Toner Machining Technologies
Two Different Productivity Mindsets in One Shop Sixty percent of business for Toner Machining Technologies consists of designing and building hydraulic workholding fixtures for high volume production manufacturing. Customers for these tools include OEMs as well as second tier suppliers to the automotive, defense, aerospace, and heavy truck industries. These workholding solutions are meticulously designed […]