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EXPERT TRAINING:
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CUSTOMIZED IMPLEMENTATION:
Ensure a smooth transition to ESPRIT with our tailored implementation strategies.
Maximize Your CNC Machinery with ESPRIT
Unlock your CNC machinery's full potential with ESPRIT, tailored for programming, simulation, and G-code optimization across all machine tools, including horizontal, vertical, and gantry machines. Perfect for high-value parts and demanding applications, ESPRIT fits a broad range of industrial needs, from small job shops to large-scale manufacturing. By combining milling, turning, and probing into one unified program, ESPRIT helps you fully leverage your machine's capabilities, boosting productivity in your shop.
A Natural Workflow
ESPRIT streamlines the transition from CAD design to machine-ready G-code, supporting a natural and efficient workflow. Benefit from ESPRIT's ability to effortlessly read CAD files in virtually any format, ensuring seamless integration with your existing design systems. ESPRIT imports the CAD feature tree and product manufacturing information alongside the geometry, providing a complete part definition without secondary documentation. The output includes edit-free G-code, enriched with sub-programs and optional tooling and operation reports for enhanced shop floor usability.
Key Features:
- Versatile CAD Compatibility: Direct import from leading design systems.
- Edit-Free G-code: With sub-programs and shop floor reports.
Program One Part, Machine Many
ESPRIT revolutionizes multi-part machining with its powerful capabilities. Whether machining different parts or various sides of the same part, ESPRIT's part and machine views simplify process planning and optimization. Enjoy the flexibility of programming across milling, turning, and probing cycles, with Modeless Programming™ ensuring maximum utilization of your CNC's capabilities. ESPRIT dynamically adapts to setup changes, part quantities, or machine configurations, automatically updating programs to match new requirements.
Key Features:
- Simplified Multi-Part Programming: With intuitive part and machine views.
- Flexible Machining Cycles: Across all machine operations.
- Dynamic Program Updates: For changes in setup or machine configurations.
Programming with a Digital Twin
By utilizing a digital twin of your CNC machine, ESPRIT enhances programming accuracy and operational efficiency. This digital setup mirrors your shop's real environment, including tool assemblies and workholding, providing an in-depth "machine awareness" that informs better programming decisions. Automation of tasks such as link generation, cycle time optimization, and collision detection streamlines the programming process, ensuring optimal machine performance.
Key Features:
- Enhanced Machine Awareness: For informed programming decisions.
- Simplified Programming: With automated critical tasks.
- Optimized Machine Performance: On the shop floor.
Optimized Production
ESPRIT's intelligent optimization algorithms ensure maximum efficiency and machine utilization by minimizing tool changes, axis rotations, and travel distances. It considers operation dependencies and setup changes, streamlining the production process. Automatic tool and operation consolidation across multiple workpieces further enhances program efficiency.
Key Features:
- Cycle Time Optimization: For efficient part programs.
- Intelligent Setup Changes: Including part flips and transfers.
- Tool and Operation Consolidation: Across multiple workpieces.
Intelligent Work Offsets
With native support for a broad spectrum of work offsets, ESPRIT simplifies complex machining scenarios, such as varying workpiece sizes, complex fixturing, and multi-sided 5-axis machining. Automatic assignment and replication of work offsets for each cutting cycle, along with optimized link generation for movement and collision avoidance, streamline the machining process.
Key Features:
- Broad Work Offset Support: For diverse machining needs.
- Simplified Complex Machining: With automatic offset assignment.
- Optimized Movement: And collision avoidance.
Automatic Link Generator
ESPRIT's automatic link generator is a game-changer, saving significant programming time and enhancing machine utilization. It intelligently manages clearances for navigating around fixtures and repositioning, optimizing 4th- and 5th-axis movements and enabling larger parts to be machined on smaller CNCs. This optimization not only speeds up programming but also reduces cycle times and maximizes machine capabilities.
Key Features:
- Intelligent Clearance Management: For efficient machine navigation.
- Optimized Axis Movements: For 4th and 5th-axis machining.
- Enhanced Machine Utilization: Allowing larger parts on smaller CNCs.
