Success Story
Norstar was founded in London, the UK by Chris Bonehill in 1998, initially as a ship brokerage company specialising in Sale and Purchase and newbuilding. In 2001, the office relocated to Monaco to focus on ship owning, investments, and management.
Norstar able to deliver safe, efficient, and reliable transportation and logistics services that enable our partners to perform their operations at the highest standards.
NorStar CNC started as a screw machine shop. Integrated into CNC machining back in 2008. In the beginning, all programming was done by hand prior to purchasing CAM software. Knew we needed something to increase our productivity so we reached out to Autodesk and found NexGenCAM through Autodesk. NexGenCAM has been a great fit ever since.
We wanted to be more efficient and increase accuracy to improve profitability. Being able to produce parts quickly while maintaining the precision quality we are known for has always been our goal at NorStar. By leveraging Autodesk CAM offerings we have been able to achieve and maintain this goal.
With our Swiss machines, we were programming by hand which was extremely time-consuming. With the help of NexGenCAM and Autodesk's PartMaker, we are now able to use Autodesk CAM on all of my machines which drastically improved our output. Leveraging the technical team at NexGenCAM has propelled our programming abilities forward drastically.
By using PartMaker and Autodesk FeatureCAM we have been able to cut our programming time by 80-90%, especially in our more complex parts. This gave us back valuable time in our day to focus on other areas in which we could grow and become more efficient.
Autodesk's PartMaker and help from NexGenCAM reduced our programming time by 80-90%. Moving forward we now have less programming downtime and more efficient and effective production time.
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Rapidly Increase R&D and Production
In business since 1994, Aimpro Tactical grew up with traditional CAD/CAM processes and machining techniques. In 2018, the team developed a new product, now covered by 2 US Patents, from which they built a prototype and completed small batches on a Prototrac DPM. Using a separate third party vendor to draw/model in Solidworks and then another to CAM out code in Mastercam or other CAM software, the company moved at what now seems like glacial speed. The challenge was to grow the product line from one specific application and dramatically increase the number of product lines and the number of units produced. This continues to grow and the team is expanding their machining and production capabilities each month. During this time, they are maintaining high-end quality and tight tolerances while minimizing scrap parts and set up times. The company's end user customers expect and demand the highest quality and Aimpro Tactical is committed to delivering only that.
Improving CNC Programming Results
Flotec, incorporated in 1983, creates respiratory products that enable providers to saves lives. Since the beginning, the core activity has been manufacturing for the medical, industrial, and Original Equipment Manufacturing markets. The products include: specialized regulators, pressure reducers, flow control valves, liquid oxygen valves, fill to vent valves, quick disconnect fittings, relief valves, economizers, vent to fill valves for the medical market, customized fluid power connectors, diesel fuel fittings, and their valves for the industrial market.
Bringing Capabilities In House To Streamline Processes
Elliott Guitars is a small boutique guitar shop that has been in business for over 16 years. We cater to musicians who expect more from the quality their guitars than the average player. As builders and musicians ourselves, we are constantly looking for ways to improve our designs and components to build the very best instruments possible. Several years ago, this process led us to the purchase of our CNC machine. In our search for better CNC design software, we were impressed by the products offered by NexGenCAM.
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