Software Package Provides Process Scheduling, Monitoring Functions
October 1, 2014
The BySoft 7 CAD/CAM software package for sheet metal processing supports both 2D and 3D CAD and provides the user with an array of process scheduling and monitoring functions. According to a company spokesperson, "BySoft 7 is not simply an update. Rather, it is a completely new generation of design and manufacturing software generation, with a wide range of new functions that offer a host of possibilities."
BySoft 7 incorporates the latest version of SolidWorks' CAD package. Users can quickly design custom parts and input existing drawing and models for editing and processing. On the CAM side, BySoft 7 offers a variety of innovations designed to improve and simplify the manufacturing process. Operators have the ability to choose either spread or compressed nesting. Spread nesting increases the distance between nested parts for improved process reliability, while compressed nesting minimizes the safety distance to increase the number of parts per sheet and minimize wasted material. Other features include optimized common cut, pre-piercing of selected contours and automatic scanning.
"BySoft 7 employs a highly intuitively structure that enables first-time users to begin working with the software quickly and easily," said the spokesperson. "It also simplifies processes within the factory with advanced capabilities for nesting parts, creating cutting plans, generating bending programs, simulating bending sequences and more. All operations take place automatically, on the basis of highly reliable data. Optimal cutting plans and bending programs can be generated at the push of a button, with the correct cutting technology automatically set and the bending process automatically simulated and monitored."
BySoft 7 consists of four modules: Sheet Processing, Tube Processing, Bending and Plant Manager. Plant Manager is an operational tool that both plans and monitors manufacturing processes, including all laser and waterjet cutting operations. Moreover, Plant Manager compiles all relevant machine and production data and makes it continuously available to the operator, providing transparency for both sheet and tube processing.
For more information contact:
Bystronic Inc.
North American Headquarters
200 Airport Rd.
Elgin, IL 60123
800-247-3332
sales.us@bystronic.com
www.bystronicusa.com
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