Expert Insights

Whether you are considering investing in CAD/CAM software for tube cutting or want to assess your current solution, these 10 questions will help you identify what really makes a difference in production.

The welding market is undergoing significant upheaval worldwide, both in terms of human resources and technology. At Alma, we have been working on this subject for over 10 years. To better understand the trends in this industry and the solutions to assist metal fabrication companies, we interviewed an expert at Alma.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.