Our Tech
CloudNC’s technology accelerates precision manufacturing and makes it more efficient, reliable and accessible.
It completes much of the difficult, manual work involved with making a component – whether that’s programming a machine, creating a schedule for a factory to produce it, or selecting the correct tools for the job and how best to use them.
As a result, manufacturers become much more productive. These advances re-energise manufacturing sectors struggling with rising costs, ageing workforces and competition from globalisation – keeping the costs of everything down for us all.
Software Solutions
CAM Assist
From setup to CAM programming in one click.
CAM Assist generates professional machining strategies in seconds. You define the setups and we create the toolpaths.
Cutting Parameters
Feeds and speeds you can trust.
Automatically create and optimise your feeds and speeds presets without leaving your favourite CAM package. Easily adjust presets for each toolpath, respecting machine power and workholding limitations.
Scheduler
Make the most from your factory.
To maximise business performance, we schedule all tasks across all resources to your future time horizon, based on the business parameters you specify.
CAM Assist – From setup to CAM program in one click
CAM Assist generates professional machining strategies in seconds.
You define the setups and we create the toolpaths.
KEY BENEFITS
- Reduce CAM programming time, complexity, and errors
- Remove trial and error from your CAM strategies
- Integrated into leading CAM packages
- Support estimation with consistent outcomes for your business
- Easy to use – no template libraries or macros are required
- Automatically optimises the tool selection
- Collision checking as standard
- It’s ready to use out of the box
KEY FEATURES
- Quickly generate complete and editable CAM programs
- Consistent outcomes for all team members
- Remove trial and error from your CAM strategies
- Create complete roughing, finishing, holemaking and deburring strategies in seconds
- Tool selection informed by robust collision checking algorithms
Cutting Parameters – Speeds and Feeds you can Trust
Automatically create and optimize your Feeds and Speeds presets without leaving your favorite CAM package.
KEY BENEFITS
- Find recommended Feeds & Speeds faster
- Reduce tool wear and improve cycle times
- Explore the behavior of your tools so that you can use them optimally
- Generates contextualised Feeds & Speeds within seconds, taking into account tool holding, work holding and machine setup
- Feeds & Speeds recommendations based on science and data from thousands of experiments
- Integrated into leading CAM packages
- Easily adjust presets for each toolpath, respecting machine power and workholding limitations
KEY FEATURES
- Reduces workload and required experience level
- Seamless integration into your favorite CAM package
- No more stand-alone cutting parameter calculators or catalogs
- Trade off key process variables e.g. cycle time vs surface quality
- Consistent outcomes for all team members
- Reduced workload optimises experience levels
Scheduler – make the most from your factory
Schedules all tasks across all resources to your future time horizon, based on the business parameters you specify, to maximise performance
KEY BENEFITS
- Optimise for better production lead times
- Reduce tool wear and improve cycle times
- Respond quickly to disruption, changing resource limits, constraints, and external delays
- Predict delivery dates for both orders received and quote requests, whilst exploring resource fluctuations
- Make evidence-based scheduling decisions on-time, every-time
- Maximise On-Time, In-Full (OTIF) across all jobs, weighted by what matters most to you
KEY FEATURES
- Outperform traditional heuristic, simulation-based and manual methods with our professional scheduling software
- Extends the functionality of existing planning tools by providing access to more accurate schedules from within familiar software
- Sensitivity analysis to respond to factory changes
- Dynamic rescheduling to handle unforeseen production issues
- Integrations to leading APS and ERP / MRP systems being extended