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The teams of the Alma Group wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Greg Trauthwein, editor of Maritime Reporter TV, the flagship publication of the maritime sector, interviewed Philippe Rouzeau, to discuss the digital evolution in shipbuilding and understand how to make shipyard complex shapes cutting efficient.

Alma GmbH welcomes a new arrival, Robin HENSCHEL, as Head of Sales. With 20 years’ experience in the sheet metal industry, Robin will be a valuable contact to guide you through your projects. Let’s meet him.

Nesting and CAM for 2D and 3D cutting, sheet metal CAD, sheet metal quoting, offline programming of welding robots… All of Alma’s software solutions for sheet metal and mechanical welding and all the new features of Almacam 4.0 will be presented at Global Industrie Paris.

Coming with about 50 new features, the new release of Almacam software suite is the result of a half-year of research and development. It makes the process of nesting, cutting and the whole workflow of sheet metal and tube cutting FASTER and SAFER.

Alma GmbH welcomes a new arrival, Robin HENSCHEL, as Head of Sales. With 20 years’ experience in the sheet metal industry, Robin will be a valuable contact to guide you through your projects. Let’s meet him.

Nesting and CAM for 2D and 3D cutting, sheet metal CAD, sheet metal quoting, offline programming of welding robots… All of Alma’s software solutions for sheet metal and mechanical welding and all the new features of Almacam 4.0 will be presented at Global Industrie Paris.

Alma Iberica has recently grown with the arrival of Paul Caro in the role of Sales Engineer. His mission is to help spanish and portugese sheet metal manufactors become more efficient relying on Alma software suite. Let’s get to know him a little better in this interview.

Coming with about 50 new features, the new release of Almacam software suite is the result of a half-year of research and development. It makes the process of nesting, cutting and the whole workflow of sheet metal and tube cutting FASTER and SAFER.

Nesting and CAM for 2D and 3D cutting, sheet metal CAD, sheet metal quoting, offline programming of welding robots… All of Alma’s software solutions for sheet metal and mechanical welding and all the new features of Almacam 4.0 will be presented at Global Industrie Paris.

What are the key capabilities of good CAD/CAM software for shipbuilding. Read on to make the good choice.

Alma will be presenting its complete range of CAD/CAM software applications for 2D/3D cutting, sheet metal work and robotics, with a focus on version 4.0 of the Almacam software suite.

At AlmaCAM USA’s booth, all the software applications for 2D/3D cutting, sheet metal work and mechanical welding integrated to the new generation Almacam suite will be in the spotlight!

The show’s positioning is particularly in tune with Alma’s expertise, as the only CAM software publisher to address both cutting and robotic welding processes, enabling to offer a comprehensive digital solution to mechanical welding manufacturers meeting the challenges of Industry 4.0.

The Global Industrie exhibition will be back in Lyon in March 2023. We will have the pleasure to welcome you on our booth 6G42 to present you our latest innovations.

Yaskawa Europe, a world leader in industrial robotics, and Alma, a specialist in off-line programming (OLP) for welding robots, announce the signature of a partnership agreement.

Alma is proud to have contributed to the development of EasyNest Online, a brand new cloud-based nesting software that is part of the InduSuite platform.

On the booth of Alma CAM USA, all the software applications for 2D/3D cutting, sheet metal work and mechanical welding integrated to the new generation Almacam suite will be in the spotlight!

A passion for technology has always been Alma’s hallmark. Combined with love of a job well done, it is a decisive factor contributing to the quality of our products and services. It is also a fantastic source of challenges and emulation within our teams.

2D/3D cutting, robotics, sheet metal quoting, Saas applications… The CAD/CAM of the future will be on the Alma stand at EuroBLECH 2022!

10 lessons to understand the advantages of our off-line programming solution, and why you should use it to program your welding robots.

Gabriel Jaubert, support engineer for 3D cutting applications at Alma, explains in this video why Almacam Tube CAD/CAM software is a must to program tube and profile cutting machines.

Use of software applications in SaaS mode is a fundamental trend and its advantages for users are now clear for all to see. While the SaaS market has been driven by management applications, today industrial software is catching up fast. Alma has been a pioneer with its optimizing software components and is constantly investing in a SaaS offering adapted to suit its different customers.

Programming of robots with an off-line programming software can be up to 10 times faster than programming by teaching pendant. However, this approach has repercussions for the entire design and manufacturing process. So what are the requirements for successful integration of off-line programming? Here are the keys to a successful off-line programming project.

Thanks to a development strategy based on both software applications and software components, and on the strength of our web tool expertise, we are able to meet different types of quotes needs for industrial sheet metal companies.

If a machine tool manufacturer or reseller has decided to include a CAD/CAM software in their offering, what kind of questions should they ask themselves before working with an independent software vendor? Plus, what are the specific characteristics of Alma’s partnership approach?

Specialist in production systems that use coil, DIMECO launched a few year ago an innovative system allowing continuous laser cutting. This solution is controlled using Alma nesting software and has been adopted by companies in different sectors in several countries.

If you are intending to invest in a robotic welding cell, you may be considering whether it’s worthwhile investing also in an off-line programming software to control your new robot. OLP is more than just an alternative to conventional programming by teaching pendant. This solution has many advantages which in fact make it irreplaceable.

In many industrial sectors it is necessary to cut parallelepipedic parts from large blocks of material. For applications where the groups of parts to produce are particularly large, it is necessary or even mandatory to use a cutting optimization software.

Use of a subscription-based service has become common practice, even the norm in many domains. So why not for a sheet metal CAD/CAM software?

In partnership with robotics integrators, in particular Daihen Varstroj in Slovenia, Alma has adapted its off-line programming software to robotized cutting of tubes and profiles. This is a niche market which requires a highly sophisticated hardware + software solution.

The quality of DXF or DWG geometries is a recurring problem when it comes to exploiting CAD files for CAM programming. Alma applicative software and web applications include advanced functions for automatic cleaning of DXF or DWG geometries.

Webquote is a new service made available to users of the almaQuote quote software. It centralizes and facilitates communication between ordering parties and sub-contractors, while automating preparation and processing of a quote.

Join our webinar to learn about our CAM solution dedicated to robotized DED-WAAM processes: November 24th at 10:00 a.m. Central European Time and December 10th at 11 a.m. North American Eastern Standard Time.

With the help of IAMS, its South Korean reseller, in the end of 2019 Alma has entered into a partnership with Prime Engineering, a leading Korean manufacturer of stone processing machinery.

Web applications, robotics, Industry 4.0… The CAD/CAM of the future will be on the Alma stand at the Global Industrie fair!

Ever since it was created 40 years ago, Alma has specialized in cutting optimization. Today it is internationally renowned for its technical expertise, which it has developed over the years in many different countries.

The Nest&Cut web application enables any company involved in the cutting of flat materials, from anywhere in the world, to easily access the best automatic nesting algorithms for reducing raw material costs, without investing in a costly solution.

Sheet metal CAD/CAM, Robotics, Nesting… With the latest modules of the CAD/CAM software suite Almacam, virtual reality of robotic simulation and the worldwide preview of web-based automatic nesting application Nest&Cut, there will be innovations in all areas at Alma’s booth in Hannover.

Once again, the TOLEXPO show served as a platform to demonstrate our expertise in cutting, sheet metal machining, robotics and our trademark product Almacam, the CAD/CAM software suite which was launched 3 years back.

Retrieving CAD assemblies for costing (quotation) or for manufacturing (sheet metal CAM) often requires the use of several software tools and implies repetitive and time-consuming tasks.

Almacam, Alma new generation CAD/CAM software is now widely marketed in Europe and is extremely well received by our customers.

Thanks to the partnership between SAIELO and Alma, Tamari Industry Co Ltd, a Japanese company specialized in laser applications for sheet metal machining, has decided to integrate Alma software solutions in its range of 5-axis machines and robots.

After Schweissen & Schneiden which was the first opportunity for Alma and Asco Data to exhibit together in Germany after the announcement of their union in June, the two companies will present their unified sheet metal CAD/CAM offering at the Blechexpo trade fair in Stuttgart.

After signing distribution agreements in Vietnam and Japan last year, a new Malaysian reseller has just joined Alma’s network.

ALMA and ASCO DATA, two major European players in the sheet metal CAD/CAM with their head offices in Grenoble (France) and Bremen (Germany) respectively, have announced that ALMA GmbH, the German subsidiary of ALMA, has purchased ASCO DATA’s share capital.

Alma launches a new version of its automatic nesting demonstrator in the cloud. Thanks to this 100% web-based application incorporating a complete make-over of its ergonomics, Alma enables any user to evaluate the performance of the Powernest nesting engine in a few seconds, using their own parts.

First unveiled as a prototype in 2014, Almacam, Alma’s new sheet metal CAM software, has been very well received by customers since then. Almacam has started to be sold throughout Europe and commercialization will soon begin in North America.

As part of its continuous development in Asia, Alma has just concluded two new distribution agreements in Vietnam and Japan.

Alma has recently signed a new distribution agreement for its CAD/CAM software programs. LeanCAP Industries, a consulting company in industrial and IT-system organization located in Casablanca (Morocco) distributes from now on the new Almacam software range (CAM for cutting and punching, sheet metal working quotations, etc.) in the Maghreb countries.