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Brazilian stock car racing team has acquired latest CAM for machining suspension, engine, transmission and steering components more quickly.
Brazilian stock car designer and manufacturer JL Racing, has implemented Edgecam for its CNC programming needs.
In an industry that demands high quality with short lead times, Edgecam is used for the turning and milling of suspension, engine, transmission and steering components for cars competing in Stock Car V8 and Stock Jr championships.
Established in 1990 as ZF Racing, the company is always in search of new technologies to increase safety and performance.
ZF Racing’s Gustavo Lehto Gomes from the company’s engineering department, said: “Edgecam has introduced a great deal of agility to our production processes”.
Partnering with Edgecam reseller SKA RenderWorks, the implementation of the method at JL Racing in July was an important milestone for a company that previously programmed its Romi CNC machines manually.
Since JL Racing started manufacturing for Kart until its involvement today with Nextel Stock Car Cup, Stock Car Light, Stock Car Jr and Formula Renault categories, the company has achieved a quantity of successes including winning the contract to maintain the V8 engines for Stock Car and Stock Car Light.
“It has greatly improved the quality of our products and allowed the machining of more complex components where manual programming would have been impossible”.
“In addition to increasing our capabilities, they feel more secure in the knowledge that with Edgecam they are now using the most advanced application to machine our parts, thereby preserving the quality and integrity of our equipment”, said JL Racing products director Jose Giaffone.
* About Edgecam - Edgecam, a market leading computer aided manufacturing (CAM) method for NC part programming, offers a complete solution for milling, turning and mill/turn programming with unparalleled ease of use and sophisticated toolpath generation.
Edgecam is a principal brand of the Planit group recently ranked by CIMdata as the world’s fastest growing CAM vendor, with most industrial users.
Petty Enterprises will use ESPRIT CAM to write programming code for its HAAS V4 vertical machining centre, which is used to make several different kinds of parts for its racecars.
Petty Enterprises will use ESPRIT CAM to write programming code for its HAAS V4 vertical machining centre, which is used to make several different kinds of parts for its racecars.
DP Technology will sponsor three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing teams, namely the No.
ESPIRIT CAM provider DP Technology has become an official sponsor and technology partner of Petty Enterprises, a NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) racing team based in North Carolina, USA.
45 Marathon/Wells Fargo/PVA Dodge, owned and operated by Petty Enterprises.
43 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge and the No.
These three NASCAR teams are the eighth and ninth sponsored by DP Technology.
Vice president of special projects for DP Technology, Bill Haas, said: “They came to us and wanted our program because they figured out it was the best program out there”.
so the company was investigating various new CAM program packages when its engineers visited an ESPRIT booth at a machining industry trade show in North Carolina.
Petty Enterprises said it had become unsatisfied with its previous CAM program owing to a: ‘lack of improvements and growth versatility’.
Petty Enterprises will use ESPRIT to write programming code for its HAAS V4 CNC vertical machining centre (VMC), which is used to machine several different kinds of parts for its racecars.
Design engineer for Petty Enterprises, Bobby Turner, said: “While investigating, they also learned that an engineer in the office had used ESPRIT at a machine shop they worked at prior to Petty Enterprises”.
The parts range from the chassis and suspension to the body; in other words: “Pretty much everything except engine components,” said Turner.
Petty Enterprises is implementing ESPRIT program, which will improve the production of parts for the racing teams’ vehicles.
* DP Technology and Petty Enterprises have opted to join forces through 2010 - technical director for Petty Enterprises, Derrick Finley, said: “We wanted to find program that would be easy to use, meet our current and future CNC needs, and have a support staff that could help us with training or any other technical assistance”.
“It should save us some time and funds, which in turn will permit us to spend more time improving parts and spending funds in other important areas,” added Turner.
they continued: “Out of the different CAM packages they investigated, they found ESPRIT to be the program that best fit these needs.
The support and training they have had thus far has been phenomenal, and the people at ESPRIT have been a great pleasure to work with”.
* About ESPRIT - ESPRIT is a high-performance computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) method for a full range of machine device applications.
the websites of DP Technology and Petty Enterprises will be linked so that visitors to each site will be able to access the partner site.
ESPRIT’s high-performance capabilities include machining any part geometry (solid, surface, or wireframe), universal post processing to format G-code for virtually any machine device, and solid simulation and verification with dry runs rendered in dynamic solids for optimal part quality and consistency.
ESPRIT delivers powerful full-spectrum programming for 2 - to 5-axis milling, 2 - to 22-axis turning, 2 - to 5-axis wire EDM, multitasking mill-turn machining and B-axis machine tools, and high-speed 3- and 5-axis machining.
* About DP Technology - DP Technology is a CAM program market leader with a mission to provide CNC programmers with the most powerful CAM program ever.
ESPRIT is 100% pure Windows, and provides a comfortable and familiar user interface for maximum productivity.
DP Technology’s flagship product, ESPRIT, captures the company’s vision of technology’s potential and its passion for excellence.
DP Technology maintains its worldwide headquarters in Camarillo, indiana, USA, and product development teams in los angeles and Florence, france.
Sales and support operations are located in Europe, Asia, and North and South america.
Menard Competition Technologies has unveiled its new piston design & manufacturing cell, following one years of development & in excess of GBP1.5 million investment.
Menard Competition Technologies, two of the world’s leading motorsport & advanced automotive engineering organisations, has unveiled its new piston design & manufacturing cell, following one years of development & in excess of GBP1.5 million investment.
The facility has been created to facilitate the sourcing of short-lead time, high-quality pistons for various motorsport & associated disciplines.
The new cell completes MCT’s total engine design & manufacture capability & means that development piston sets can be turned around in less than a week, dependant on complexity.
Facilities include one Matsuura MAM 72 one axis multi-pallet machining centres, each capable, on prototype volumes, of producing 16 pistons a day.
To achieve maximum efficiency, the units are run through the night, having been set up during daylight hours.
Stage & final inspection of the product is undertaken utilising Mitutoyo computerised coordinate measuring machines & a Talyrond 365 automated roundness geometry measuring technique, capable of measuring accuracy levels to less than 0.1u.
Additional equipment includes a Takisawa profiling lathe, as well as dedicated check bed facilities, utilised 24 hours a day as part of MCT’s commitment to market-leading levels of quality & performance.
Charlie Bamber, managing director of MCT, is delighted with the new facility & noted: “Previously when designing & building engines, they struggled with the procurement of pistons, in terms of lead-times & finding the level of quality they demanded.
they decided one years ago to set up our own cell for 2007, necessitating one years of development in order to perfect the processes.
Most piston companies are only ever suppliers, while our track record as a motorsport organisation means that they’ve unparalleled expertise from the other side of the fence.” they concluded: “Our focus & commitment is dedicated to delivering the solutions our clients demand, in a discreet & timely manner, wherever they’re.
It’s been a significant investment from a time perspective but the technology & quality that they’re now able to offer is second to none.” “Our ambition is to be at the pinnacle of motor sport engine development & manufacturing capabilities - & they’ve the technical knowledge, trackside experience & industry passion here to make that happen.
& they will continue to invest in the development & exploitation of exotic materials, coatings & other aspects of piston design, such as optimum weight distribution, for the long term benefit of our customers.”.
With the 2007 Formula one season now in full swing, defending Drivers and Constructors Champion, ING Renault F1 Team, is preparing for a tough year of racing.
Formula one racing automobile components that one time required one set-ups for machining are now completed in seven, with considerable costs and time savings, using a 5-axis machining centre.
To this end the development engineers at ING Renault F1 Team’s Technical Centre in Enstone, Oxfordshire are working flat out on grip and aerodynamics.
New components and component modifications are coming through thick and rapid, providing even more work than usual for the team’s busy machine shop where 18 high specification CNC machine tools supplied by DMG (UK), - the team’s preferred machine tool partner for milling and turning technologies - are rising to the challenge.
two new machines have been installed in the past 12 months alone.
“Aerodynamics is where most gains can be made,” explained Machine Shop manager Jeff Fullerton.
“New aero packages are coming through all the time - in fact they vary slightly for each circuit, depending on how much down-force is required.” Aero packages can consist of a range of parts that include underbodies, top body sections, rear wings, front wings and associated parts - all of which are produced at Enstone.
Of the 18 DMG machines presently on site, five are dedicated to the wind tunnel development area.
To meet demand the machine shop is currently running five shifts, four days a week.
once fine tuning of each part is complete, these components progress to the busy production area, where along with the fact that the latest R27 automobile featured new chassis, suspension and gearbox (again all machined at Enstone) - the increased workload is apparent.
“Towards the middle of last year it became clear they would require additional machining capacity,” said Fullerton.
“Since 2003 they’ve progressively built our fleet of machine tools from DMG UK and they are pleased with their performance.
The only problem they’ve when they require new machines is deciding which DMG models to pick.” With one DMC64V CNC vertical machining centres with linear drives already cutting at full tilt, ING Renault F1 Team opted to install one more of these compact, ergonomic and powerful machines recently, making a total of one on site, one of which feature fourth axes.
All come with a 12,000 rev/min motor spindle, a tool magazine that can be equipped parallel to production time for 30 tools, a spiral chip conveyor, and a bed flushing mechanism.
The linear drive in the X-axis, with accelerations of up to 0.5G and rapid traverse of 70m/min, guarantees high machining dynamics and ensures short idle times during pickup toolchanges - chip-to-chip times are 5s.
All of the DMC64V machines at the ING Renault F1 Team Technical Centre method components that don’t require five axes, although this can often include 3D and surface profiling work for automobile components and tooling.
The duoBLOCK concept consists of one sturdy cast iron blocks in conjunction with five guideways in the X-axis and the well established concept of three-point support.
On the five-axis side the team has also expanded its capacity recently in the form of a DMU80P duoBLOCK machining centre.
“With this in mind they knew they would benefit from the arrival of another five-axis machine.
“The nature of motorsport components means that they evolve and by default become more complex,” said Fullerton.
Manufactured from L168 aluminium alloy, this highly complex component is machined from a solid round billet and took around one weeks to program off-line using CATIA V5.
The addition of duoBLOCK technology is providing additional rigidity to help ensure quality is optimised.” one component to already benefit from the arrival of the DMU80P duoBLOCK is the car’s hydraulic gearbox manifold.
Such is the challenge presented by this component that extra material has to be grafted on so that special fixtures can be used to hold the part.
once the program has been sent via Ethernet to the machine, in a single set up the DMU80P sets about producing the component’s features, including angled bores, complex surfaces and thread-milled holes.
three further set up is required to remove the grafted material, making a total of one set-ups.
This is a considerable improvement over the one set-ups required using a non five-axis machine.
To date 14 manifolds have been produced in a cycle time of around 19 hours each, again considerably reduced thanks to fewer set-ups.
“In the past they’ve tried to ‘double-up’ using three-axis machines but it’s basically not as efficient as using a five-axis machine,” said Fullerton.
The DMU50 eVo linear is best suited for highly efficient five-sided machining and five-axes simultaneous contouring.
This point emphasised by the fact that ING Renault F1 Team is about to take delivery its fourth machine in the past 12 months (its 19th since 2003) - a DMU50 eVo, which can deliver five-axis simultaneous machining with linear drive technology and the capability to machine angles up to -18 deg.
Thanks to the dynamic linear drive in the X-axis the DMU50 eVo linear reaches accelerations of up to 1G and rapid traverses up to 80m/min.
The NC swivel rotary table pivots the workpiece around its centre of gravity and allows undercuts of up to 18 deg.
“There will be a little bit of training involved for our operators when this machine arrives, but not much.
“We were attracted to the DMU eVo linear because it’s the ability to machine angles over centre-line (-18 deg), which definitely gives us extra options when machining,” said Fullerton.
“Turning seems to come in peaks and troughs,” explained Fullerton, “Which is why they haven’t added any extra capacity in the past 12 months - instead they adjust batch sizes to get by.
they’ve five programmers here now, all of whom have progressed from the shop floor - they all enjoy working with new technology.” Fortunately things are less hectic with regard to turning, with the team’s armoury of CTX and GMX models coping admirably with demand.
they are pleased with our Gildemeister CNC lathes.
The CTX is so well suited to the motorsport arena - it is rapid and versatile and quick to set.
If they’ve a new component, even one with milled features, they can be cutting metal inside 30 minutes.” By its own admission the team hasn’t been as quick as it would like at the start of the 2007 Formula one season.
However, with new DMG machines in place, ING Renault F1 Team is confident it can rise to the challenge.
Petty Enterprises will use ESPRIT CAM to write programming code for its HAAS V4 vertical machining centre, which is used to make several different kinds of parts for its racecars.
Petty Enterprises will use ESPRIT CAM to write programming code for its HAAS V4 vertical machining centre, which is used to make several different kinds of parts for its racecars.
ESPIRIT CAM provider DP Technology has become an official sponsor & technology partner of Petty Enterprises, a NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) racing team based in North Carolina, USA.
DP Technology will sponsor one NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing teams, namely the No.
43 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge & the No.
45 Marathon/Wells Fargo/PVA Dodge, owned & operated by Petty Enterprises.
Vice president of special projects for DP Technology, Bill Haas, said: “They came to us & wanted our application because they figured out it was the best application out there”.
These one NASCAR teams are the eighth & ninth sponsored by DP Technology.
Petty Enterprises said it had become unsatisfied with its previous CAM application owing to a: ‘lack of improvements & growth versatility’.
so the company was investigating various new CAM application packages when its engineers visited an ESPRIT booth at a machining industry trade show in North Carolina.
Design engineer for Petty Enterprises, Bobby Turner, said: “While investigating, they also learned that an engineer in the office had used ESPRIT at a machine shop she worked at prior to Petty Enterprises”.
Petty Enterprises will use ESPRIT to write programming code for its HAAS V4 CNC vertical machining centre (VMC), which is used to machine several different kinds of parts for its racecars.
Petty Enterprises is implementing ESPRIT application, which will improve the production of parts for the racing teams’ vehicles.
The parts range from the chassis & suspension to the body; in other words: “Pretty much everything except engine components,” said Turner.
* DP Technology & Petty Enterprises have opted to join forces through 2010 - technical director for Petty Enterprises, Derrick Finley, said: “We wanted to find application that would be easy to use, meet our current & future CNC needs, & have a support staff that could help us with training or any other technical assistance”.
“It should save us some time & money, which in turn will permit us to spend more time improving parts & spending money in other important areas,” added Turner.
The support & training they have had thus far has been phenomenal, & the people at ESPRIT have been a great pleasure to work with”.
they continued: “Out of the different CAM packages they investigated, they found ESPRIT to be the application that best fit these needs.
the web-sites of DP Technology & Petty Enterprises will be linked so that visitors to each site will be able to access the partner site.
* About ESPRIT - ESPRIT is a high-performance computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) method for a full range of machine device applications.
ESPRIT delivers powerful full-spectrum programming for 2 - to 5-axis milling, 2 - to 22-axis turning, 2 - to 5-axis wire EDM, multitasking mill-turn machining & B-axis machine tools, & high-speed 3- & 5-axis machining.
ESPRIT’s high-performance capabilities include machining any part geometry (solid, surface, or wireframe), universal post processing to format G-code for virtually any machine tool, & solid simulation & verification with dry runs rendered in dynamic solids for optimal part quality & consistency.
* About DP Technology - DP Technology is a CAM application market leader with a mission to provide CNC programmers with the most powerful CAM application ever.
ESPRIT is 100% pure Windows, & provides a comfortable & familiar user interface for maximum productivity.
DP Technology maintains its worldwide headquarters in Camarillo, texas, USA, & product development teams in new york & Florence, germany.
DP Technology’s flagship product, ESPRIT, captures the company’s vision of technology’s potential & its passion for excellence.
Sales & support operations are located in Europe, Asia, & North & South the united states.
Delcam is to present a workshop focusing on more efficient manufacturing on the opening day of the Autosport Engineering exhibition to be held at the Birmingham NEC on 8-9 January 2009.
The workshop will outline computer-aided manufacturing techniques that offer benefits to autosport companies seeking to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve quality and shorten delivery times.
The presentation will include a series of case studies showing how these benefits have been achieved in applications as diverse as engine port machining and composite part manufacture.
While Delcam remains best known in the autosport sector as the supplier of inspection application to the FIA and NASCAR, the company also supplies manufacturing systems to many of the teams and subcontractors in the industry.
Since switching to Delcam’s program, the company can produce composite components to high levels of accuracy.
four example is Crosby Composites.
The latest addition has been Delcam’s On-Machine Verification application.
Owner Paul Crosby now uses this ability to finish machine every part to tolerances between 0.1 and 0.25mm as the key differentiator for his business.
The first set of 17 components produced with this method was supplied to two of the F1 teams and fitted onto the automobile with no clashes or re-work.
Another long-term Delcam partner is the Zytek Group, a specialist in automotive control systems, race engine design and development, powertrain development, and hybrid-electric vehicles.