用户简介

Name: Sharp Tooling Solutions 

Business: 航空航天、汽车和国防行业的夹具、工具和模型加工

Web: sharptoolingsolutions.com

Sharp利用WorkNC好处:

☆. 高效的粗加工、精加工、再粗加工以及强大5轴编程的能力

☆. 自动和手动编程功能灵活地结合应用

☆. 动态3D毛坯管理使用户能够从头到尾跟踪整个过程的毛坯模型状态

用户反馈

“We chose WorkNC for the roughing, finishing, re-machining, and 5-axis programming.”

我们选择WorkNC是因为其强大的开粗、精加工、再粗加工和五轴功能。

Sharp Tooling Solutions has been a leading supplier of fixtures for the automotive, aerospace and defense industries for three decades, steadily upgrading technologies and processes to remain competitive without sacrificing precision and quality.

夏普公司三十年来一直是汽车，航天和国防工业固定装置的领先供应商，在不牺牲精度和质量的前提下，不断升级技术和工艺以保持竞争力。

Based in Romeo, Michigan, Sharp offers design and build for component-quality certification, fixture design and build for assembly tooling, manufacturing of simulation models, and manufacturing process improvement. Among its clients are major automotive and aircraft manufacturers, as well as the U.S. government. Sharp’s manufacturing capabilities include lathe work and milling in up to five axes, with aluminum, stainless steel and titanium comprising its most commonly used materials.

夏普总部位于美国密歇根州的罗密欧市, 提供组件质量认证的设计和构建，夹具设计和装配工具制造，仿真模型制造，以及加工过程优化方案。它的客户包括主要的汽车和飞机制造商，以及美国政府。夏普的加工能力包括车床加工和五轴铣削，最常用的材料包括铝、不锈钢和钛。

 “We typically make check fixturing that allow our customers to course correct during their own manufacturing processes,” says Manager Jim Justice, who has been with Sharp for 17 years. “Many of the fixtures we make are used in the manufacturing of automotive and aerospace parts, such as door panels for cars and skins for aircraft.”

“我们制造的检具保证用户加工准确无误，” 已在夏普工作17年的经理Jim Justice说道。“我们制造的很多夹具被用于汽车和航天航空部件加工，例如汽车门板和飞机外覆盖件.”

The company, which employs a team of 80-90, is also the developer of the cutting-edge PATCO® Modular Tooling System, which replaces dedicated fixtures and components with a reusable, repeatable system. This is a significant financial boon for customers, who are able to reap additional benefit from an initial investment in fixturing.

同时，夏普也是最先进的PATCO® 的模块化工具系统的开发商，拥有一个80-90个人的团队。该系统的可重复使用性和可重复性取代了专用夹具和组件，这对客户是一个非常大的福利。他们能够在最初的夹具投资中获得额外利益。

 “If they want to weld two parts together, they need a fixture to hold that part, but then they can tear it down and reuse it,” Justice says. “We’ve kind of got a niche for the modular tooling. We do all of the PATCO design and building here at Sharp, and we also keep inventory, which is a huge benefit to the customer.”

“如果他们想要把两个部件焊接到一起，他们需要一个夹具去固定住那个部件，但是随后他们能够将其拆卸下来并重复使用。我们在夏普完成所有的PATCO系统的设计和创建，同时保留库存，这对于我们客户有非常大的好处。”

To manufacture its prototypes and check fixtures, Sharp Tooling has used the WorkNC CAD/CAM system since 2009. The company made the switch from its former system upon finding that the solution couldn’t meet all of its needs. Having used WorkNC for 30 years, Justice was influential in the company’s decision to implement the new solution.

夏普从2009年开始使用WorkNC CAM软件加工原型和检具，原因是原先的CAM系统无法满足他们所有的加工需要。Justice已经使用WorkNC 30年了，他对公司实施新的CAM解决方案产生了重要的影响。

 “WorkNC is a much more robust system than what we originally had,” he says. “Any  time  there  is  something  better  out  there,  we go after it wholeheartedly. We chose WorkNC for the roughing, finishing, re-machining, and  5-axis  programming.  Everything  that is  available  to  us  in  the  software  we  are  using  or  have  used.”

“WorkNC比我们原先用的CAM系统更加强大，”他说。“只要市场上有更好的产品，我们就会全力以赴。我们选择WorkNC进行开粗、精加工、再粗加工和五轴编程。我们会充分利用WorkNC的所有功能。”

Once CAD models are imported into WorkNC, the models are saved to workzones, in which toolpath is generated. “When we get a job, we’ll start by getting our stock that’s ordered for the material and make our stock model,” Justice says. “Most of our parts are multiple setups — meaning five, six, or seven setups.”

把CAD模型导入至WorKNC后，模型会储存至工作目录中，生成刀具路径。“加工新工件时，我们首先要从订购原材料的毛坯开始，然后制作毛坯模型，”Justice说。“我们大多数部件都需多个工位才能完成，意味着需要5个、6个或者7个工位。”

Sharp takes advantage of WorkNC’s automatic feature-finding tool, which is used to automatically identify part features, such as chamfers, fillets and pockets, to be machined. Due to the complexity of its hole drilling operations, the Sharp NC team uses the solution’s manual drilling functions in combination with the WorkNC Drilling Manager.

夏普利用WorkNC自动识别特征功能，软件自动识别工件特征后再进行加工，例如倒角、圆角和口袋。由于钻孔操作复杂，夏普的NC团队结合使用了WorkNC的手动钻孔和自动钻孔管理功能。

The drilling manager helps save programming time by automatically detecting holes and displaying hole data in a window that enables programmers to easily assign center-drilling, drilling, tapping, boring（钻孔） and thread-milling operations.

WorkNC自动钻孔管理功能可以自动化检测孔的相关信息，有利于节省编程时间，同时在窗口中展示孔的相关数据使编程人员可以轻松分配中心钻孔、钻孔、攻丝、钻孔和螺纹铣削后进行操作。

 “The drilling manager finds all the holes that you want to drill, finds the vectors of those holes, and creates the vectors that the machine will recognize,” Justice says. “We typically vector holes all over our parts, and the drilling manager allows us to cut time spent programming holes by 50 percent, or more.”

“WorkNC钻孔管理会识别所有你想要操作的孔，发现所有孔的向量，并创建机器能够识别的向量，”Justice说道.”我们工件上通常到处都是向量孔，WorkNC的钻孔管理功能使我们孔编程时间减少至50%，甚至更多。

To maintain efficiency, the Sharp NC team relies upon WorkNC’s specialized roughing cycles, which include the waveform roughing strategy, as well as the basic global roughing and re-roughing cycles. Additional WorkNC roughing cycles include flat surface roughing and re- roughing, plunge, adaptive trochoidal, spiral core, and parallel roughing.

为了保持效率，夏普NC团队利用WorkNC专业开粗策略，包括波纹铣开粗、全局开粗和二次开粗的循坏使用。除此之外，还经常运用平面粗加工、二次开粗、插角加工、摆线加工、螺旋加工和平行粗加工。

While Sharp is just beginning to use the waveform strategy, the company extensively utilizes other WorkNC roughing cycles. “Global roughing and re-roughing are 95 percent of our rough program. Re-rough is beneficial because you can go in there with a short cutter and then do collision check and go back in with a longer cutter. You can’t use a longer cutter as quickly because of chatter, so it’s more efficient to use the shorter cutter first and then re-rough the area that the first cutter couldn’t reach.”

夏普刚开始利用波纹铣策略时，已经广泛运用了WorkNC的其他开粗策略。“全局开粗和二次开粗应用率达到95%以上。二次开粗特别好用，支持更短的刀具，能够做碰撞检测，同时能切回至长刀具。所以首先使用更短的刀具，然后再次开粗第一次刀具无法到达的区域会更加高效，并有效减少振刀。

Similarly, using the WorkNC re-machining strategy ensures that material remaining after a first operation is automatically removed with increasingly smaller tools in subsequent operations.

同理，利用WorkNC的再粗加工策略保证在后续的加工中不断更换刀具长度自动化去除在首次加工中留下的材料。

“The re-machining is huge because you can finish the part with a large cutter and then come back later with a smaller cutter to get into the corners,” Justice says. “The benefit is that you’re able to use a larger cutter to finish your part, and it recognizes where the stock is so that you can machine only those areas that can machine with a smaller cutter.” WorkNC offers dynamic 3D stock management, so programmers can easily track the state of the stock model throughout the programming process rather than just at the beginning and end.

“ 再粗加工的策略非常强大，因为你用大刀具完成切削后，能够选择更短的刀具进行拐角加工，”Justice说道。“好处就是你可以用更大刀具去完成粗加工，WorkNC能够识别余料残留的地方，所以你只需要对于这些区域使用更小的刀具。”WorkNC提供动态3D毛坯管理，编程人员能够轻松追踪整个编程过程中的模型状态，而不仅仅是在开始和结束的时候。

Keeping track of stock is part and parcel with collision detection, and is a vital need when dealing with the kinds of complex parts produced by Sharp Tooling.

跟踪模型状态是碰撞检测重要组成部分，同时是处理夏普制造各种复杂零件的重要手段。

“None of the details we do are simple,” says Justice. “We basically cut 3D out of a solid block of aluminum, flipping the part continuously to make sure warp doesn’t happen. Collision checking is utilized for 99 percent of what we do. It will show us if the spindle is going to hit and we’ll take precautions. It will also tell us the cutter length, which is especially helpful for employees as they develop experience and manufacturing knowledge.”

“我们做的所有细节都不简单”Justice说。“我们会把实体铝材切割具有立体感的模型，不断翻转工件保证不会产生变形。WorkNC碰撞检测应用于我们99%的工作。他能提醒我们主轴是否会产生碰撞，我们对此可以提前采取预防措施。WorkNC还能够自动推荐安全刀长，这对于操作人员增长经验和提升制造知识特别有帮助。”

上海强互科技汇聚制造精英，可为客户定制各领域的自动化加工方案。欢迎来撩~

欢迎有CAM购买计划的企业联系我们申请软件试用！

更多资讯清关注WorkNC微信公众号：qh_worknc