Advanced
Wood Design Mfg. Inc. is located in bucolic Cedarburg in
mid-western Wisconsin. Surrounded by apple
orchards that have been in operation for
75 years, it is located in a converted
apple warehouse just minutes away from the
historic downtown Cedarburg.
The
Ensign-Bickford
Aerospace & Defense Company is a global leader
in energetic systems used in diverse market segments including;
minefield and obstacle breaching, military demolition, vehicle
protection, tactical weapons, and space & strategic systems.
Ilan Dei owner of
Ilan Dei Studio, located in beautiful
Venice Beach California. is an innovative
and award-winning designer of furniture
and home furnishings for residential and
commercial use. He creates his own line of
furniture, lighting and home designs and
produces products for several national
manufacturers.
Todd Reith, a well known luthier builds only the best;
his guitars are unique in design,
uncompromising in detail and quality. The
instruments are hand made with only the
best tone woods, the best finishes, the
best electronics and the best construction
methods.
Cetehor is a French government advisory
agency that acts as a technical center
to assist the French Clockwork, Jewelry,
Precious Stone and Metalworking
industries. For over 60 years Cetehor
has played a key role in helping large
establishments as well as small
craftsmen in the development of new
products.
It was a beautiful spring day in April
of 2005. The sun was shining and there
were a just a few cotton puff clouds in
the azure sky. The humidity that
I have come to expect in Tokyo was hardly
perceptible and it almost felt like Southern
California weather. A gentle breeze was
wafting along the narrow streets of central
Tokyo as we made our way towards the old
quarters.
Founded in 1987, Plastteknik is
a one-stop complete solution company that
helps customers right from basic concept
through the product completion. With its
own internal resources and development
staff, Plastteknik carries out product
development, CNC milled, turned and vacuum
formed prototypes, mold making and injection
molding.
Karl Hofmann GmbH & Company
located in Bavaria near Munich, Germany
has been in business for over 50 years
and has been continuing the family tradition
into its second generation. In the early
70’s, Mr. Hofman started out manufacturing
automatic CAM controlled turning machines,
which were used to produce rivets from
coil. Today the company has over 20
employees with 11 CNC machines.
Advanced Machine Tool (AMT) is
a 35-year old company specializing in
the development of motors for appliances.
For years they had successfully used a
pair of CAM programs, Mazak’s CAMWARE
and ShopCAM from D. Broderick Software
to handle their manufacturing needs, which
at the time was 2D only...
Steve Ryan is the owner of RyanTech
Engineering (www.ryantecheng.com), a small
design and prototyping firm located in
California. His company is a leader in
designing innovative battery-powered Personal
Transportation Vehicles (PTV), as well
as other products such as lightweight
bikes and racecars.
Phill Pittman spent his entire
life using his hands to create wood cravings,
until a neck injury about twelve years
ago limited his use of them. However,
he didn’t let that stop him. Instead
of crafting only with his hands, he became
a digital craftsman, employing software
and CNC machines at his company
in Garland, Texas called Masterwerkes.
Tradition is a good thing. Tradition is
what has kept a machine shop called Rosengrens
family-owned for four generations. However,
sometimes tradition has to take a back
seat. That what occurred last year when
current owner Sören Rösengren
decided to take the Limhamn, Sweden-based
ccompany that his great-grandfather founded
in 1909, into the 21st century.
Ever since Bill Barschdorf changed his
profession from scaring kids to entertaining
them, he dreamed that there was an easier
way to directly create prototype models
and sculptures. You see, Barschdorf
used to create the makeup and monsters
used in Hollywood blockbusters like “Nightmare
on Elm Street, Part 4” and The Abyss.
It is always said that if
you enjoy what you do, the results will
show up in your work, and this has been
the case at the Cleveland Institute of
Art. The Professor talked about students
who have won scholarships based on designs
they created since this system was introduced.
Read how Mike Eaton
and Chris Fletcher run a two-person machine
shop named Jessco Manufacturing Inc. in
Washington state, where they make plastic
injections molds, as well as design mechanical
and plastic parts using VisualMill.
The Design School at
the Art Center in Pasadena designs is
renowned world over for its expertise
in automotive body design. Learn
how students at this prestigious Design
School use VisualMill to bring to life
the designs of tomorrow.
Anderson Race Engineering, the company
that builds racing components for Team
Valvoline EMGO Suzuki's frames and engines
uses VisualMill to speed up production.
Sugiyama Industries of Japan, a top
tier supplier to Toyota Motor Corporation,
uses VisualMill to create complex steel
tools and dies used in the automotive
industry for aluminum cast parts.
VisualMill's advanced toolpath generation
algorithms makes complex mold making
easy. Click on image to find out
how a $1.9 Billion shoe company, Brown
Shoe Corporation makes molds for shoes.
VisualMill's advanced toolpath generation
algorithms makes complex mold making easy.
Fidel Esquivel of JMF Molds of Alhambra,
USA, uses VisualMill to create molds such
as the one shown.
VisualMill's versatility makes is suited
for almost any manufacturing applications.
Read how world famous RockShox Corporation
makes use of VisualMill in its production
line to make complex production prototypes
for mountain bikes like the one shown
here.
VisualMill's use in the micro-world of
jewelry production is a testimony to its
adaptability and versatility. Learn how
a 100 year old world famous jeweler, Massoni
Jewlers of Rome, Italy is using VisualMill
for their productions.
VisualMill's extensive toolpath methods
make it ideally suited for wood working
applications. Learn how renowned Mandolin
maker Michael Heiden uses VisualMill to
create his masterpieces.
VisualMill's high accuracy
toolpath methods allow it to be used for
intricate machining of high quality prototypes.
Find out how Metro Technologies uses VisualMill
in creating masterpieces as the one shown
here.
