Printed in Modern Machine Shop 01/24/2007

At Alpha Engineering and Design (AED; Fort Collins, Colorado) a programming bottleneck was an impediment to fulfilling a goal of doubling capacity. That bottleneck involved adapting to engineering changes in a way that didn’t introduce error. In addition to constraints such as short lead-times and tight tolerances, AED is a company that cannot afford to tolerate scrap......Read More

Printed in SolidCAM trade Journal 05/21/2006

“SolidCAM allows me to quickly take a design and create effective G-code for our CNC-machines,” says James Thompson, vice-president of operations at Alpha Engineering and Design (AED). Since AED implemented SolidCAM software a year ago, the time-consuming tasks of programming CNC machine code have been drastically reduced……Read More