SPRING Technologies Awarded for Innovative Software

SPRING Technologies, Inc. (Boston, MA), a supplier of software for the optimal and flexible use of numerical control machine tools, has been rewarded for their innovative NCSIMUL 4CAM software at the AMB 2016 exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany. This add-on solution for the market’s leading CAM products won the MM Award 2016, a trophy awarded for the most innovative technology in the Software category.

For the last three years the German industry magazine MM MaschinenMarkt has awarded eight trophies at the AMB international exhibition, which is organized every two years in Stuttgart and is one of the top five in the industry. It draws 1,350 exhibitors from nearly 30 countries, all showcasing their latest offerings for machine tools, new generations of precision tools and products used across-the-board by professionals in the machining sector. Many suppliers were in competition for the different categories of 2016 MM Awards. The jury assessed the level of innovation on the strength of three main criteria:

• Firstly and importantly, the offering had to be completely new or deliver a substantial improvement on an initial development;
• Secondly, it had to be revolutionary, rather than just an upgrade, in terms of traditional know-how;
• Finally, the eight members of the MM-MaschinenMarkt panel judged the solutions, not only on their intrinsic innovatory quality, but also, above all, on their real-world value in the industrial environment, taking into account the productivity increases actually delivered.

Of the 24 shortlisted businesses, the panel chose eight winners, selecting one as “outstanding.” Competition in the Software category, which was won by NCSIMUL 4CAM, was fierce as prestigious rivals included Open Mind Technologies and Mitutoyo CTL Germany. This is the second trophy for innovation that NCSIMUL 4CAM has won this year, having already received honors in April at Salon Industrie Paris 2016 in France.

“For our German teams in particular, the AMB MM Award is an outstanding acknowledgement of the investment and development work we have put into our software. Our product goal is to speed up and secure the programming and production processes for our customers in the field of industrial machining, making them more flexible, faster and better matched to the demands of Industry 4.0. The factory of the future is driving industrial processes towards ever more digitization, and we have the solutions,” said Herbert Schönle, the chief executive officer of SPRING Technologies GmbH (Wetzlar, Germany).

NCSIMUL 4CAM is a CAM add-on that enables programs to be transferred to the kinematics of different machine tools, depending on the availability of the machines in the workshop, the difficulty of the machining operation, the company’s needs, etc., to increase agility in production. The software offers shops the ability to change machines on the fly with no need to produce a new CAM program, while continuing to CAM systems such as CATIA, NX, CREO, TOPSOLIDCAM and MASTERCAM, or existing NC programs (ISO format) without the need to custom develop external post-processors.

In just a few clicks, NCSIMUL 4CAM generates a program that is optimized, checked and secured, irrespective of the target machine type, kinematics or controllers. This helps shops to not only capitalize on the work embodied in legacy CAM or other existing programs, but also to take advantage of new machines and ensure that production remains flexible and uninterrupted. This software enables manufacturers to integrate the solution into all their machining projects in a seamless, bidirectional, end-to-end process, through to the manufacturing go-live on the final target machine.

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