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P.E.P. TECHNOLOGY©
P.E.P. vs. Whitney’s OEM Software
P.E.P. SAVES A “LASER”
PRODUCTION JOB AT W.A. WHITNEY MORE THAN $6,000.00.
This document highlights the engineering errors, the material savings and the 30% plus increase in laser productivity attained at the W.A.WHITNEY factory while cutting a customer’s production job with the P.E.P. Technology software. The recommended software at that time was the Brand "X" software.
PROJECT
W.A. Whitney’s customer required 10 parts having a combined total of 3,166 parts to be laser cut.
JOB OVERVIEW
While on site at W.A. Whitney conducting a laser presentation, a P.E.P. Technology engineer converted the customer’s drawings, nested the parts, loaded the posted files into the control and then watched as sheet after sheet were cut for more than two hour. The 2nd and 3rd shift laser operators went on to cut parts continuously for 26 hours. The results of that job are discussed in this document.
HIGHLIGHTS of the
LASER JOB
|
|
Item |
P.E.P. Technology Results |
Brand "X" Results |
P.E.P. Savings |
|
1 |
Engineering time to correct
drawings errors |
0
minutes |
Unknown |
2 hours |
|
2 |
CAD file translation to a
finished cutter path. Includes the analysis of each Cad drawing, locating of errors,
correcting the error, sequencing the finished cutter path, saving of the
finished cutter path. |
1
minute to automatically locate errors, fix errors & save all 10 parts as
a finished cutter path. Refer to error
log on page #3 to view list of fixed items;
10 duplicated geo., 2 gaps, 69 geometry combined, 2 line arc blends
fixed |
Unknown |
1 hour |
|
3 |
Programming time – steps
1-24 ( Fig #1 ) |
Under
6 minutes |
Est. 8 hours |
7.5 hours |
|
4 |
Material
required (11 ga. 48x120 mild steel ) |
124
sheets |
133 sheets |
9 sheets |
|
5 |
Intersections radiused by |
4,149 |
? |
$884.67 |
|
6 |
Rapids / Required head
raises Laser up / down time 4
seconds / rapid |
23,482
rapids / 2,079 actual head raises using PEP CPT |
? |
$5,350.75 |
|
7 |
Estimated Laser time to
complete job |
25.8
hours |
? |
n/a |
|
8 |
Actual laser time to cut
job start to finish |
25.8
hours |
50 hours |
25 hours |
|
9 |
Lost machine time from
damaged tips |
0
damaged tips |
Several
tips damaged |
$1,000.00 |
|
10 |
Remark #1 |
At
no time did the laser stop cutting, dive into the material, damage a tip or
lose a cut, every Every part was cut
exactly as programmed. |
The machine stopped continuously
for multiple reasons. |
|
|
11 |
Remark #2 |
No
less than 20 Whitney employees saw the laser run and remarked that they had
never seen the laser cut as fast or rapid with the head down throughout an
entire nest. |
A Brand
"X" tech went on site to run the job
and ended up staying over thru Saturday |
|
|
|
Total savings using P.E.P. on this ONE job |
$6,000.00 plus |
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