Häwitool Boosts Efficiency with Open Mind's Hypermill Automation Center

Automation in CAM programming Häwitool enhances productivity with Hypermill’s advanced features

2024-10-10 Source: Open Mind 2 min Reading Time

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Swiss tool and mould maker Häwitool has enhanced its efficiency by adopting Open Mind's Hypermill Automation Center Advanced for CAM programming. By automating key processes like toolpath programming and electrode production, Häwitool has cut recurring task times by 50 percent.

Tobias Roffler (front) and Sinisa Stankovic delivered an impressive team performance when they started using Hypermill CAD/CAM system for automated programming. (Source: Open Mind) — Tobias Roffler (front) and Sinisa Stankovic delivered an impressive team performance when they started using Hypermill CAD/CAM system for automated programming.
(Source: Open Mind)

Häwitool, a Swiss specialist in tool and mould making, successfully converted its CAM programming to Open Mind’s Hypermill in 2022. Now, the company has been able to further increase efficiency in its work preparation by using automatic processes to program toolpaths with the Hypermill Automation Center.

Häwitool already makes extensive use of the CAD/CAM system's feature and macro technologies. The Hypermill Automation Center Advanced now exploits the most advanced CAM Automation options. Sinisa Stankovic, Open Mind Sales Manager for Switzerland, explains: “The Hypermill Automation Center Advanced offers a technology that goes far beyond the Automation of standard geometry features. The design of the CAD models plays a secondary role. The main focus is on the elements that a CAD model can contain. With a variety of template functions, Hypermill users can define and standardise complex processes and specify the process steps.”

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Felix Gasser is one of the specialists at Häwitool for the Hypermill Automation Center. He is convinced: “Anyone who is well versed in milling technology and has an in-depth knowledge of the software and its many possibilities can achieve great success with it.’”(Source: Open Mind)

Christoph Häberli, Managing Director of Häwitool, says: “We are all enthusiastic about our Hypermill CAD/CAM software. The system is easy to use and provides excellent milling strategies that save us a lot of time. Above all, I appreciate the automation options provided by the Hypermill Automation Center, which we will continue to expand in the future.”(Source: Open Mind)

Häwitool has been using the Hypermill CAD/CAM system from Open Mind since the beginning of 2022. The tool and mould making company highlights the system’s ease of use, extensive 5-axis strategies and the automation technology that is now also in use.(Source: Häwitool)

Felix Gasser, one of the three Häwitool employees learning about Automation, reports: “You have to work intensively with the software and its many possibilities. But once you’ve learned the ropes, you can achieve great success.” He and his colleagues initially focused on electrode production and automated recurring tasks such as writing jobs, defining levels, setting zero points, colouring, labelling, etc. “This doesn’t mean that the programmer is completely out of the loop,” explains Felix Gasser. “Rather, the Automation Center interactively guides them through the individual process steps. The programmer determines the type of electrode involved, whether copper or graphite is being machined, and can also make corrections to other suggested details.”

Team leader Tobias Roffler pinpoints the success: “Compared to the past, we save at least 50 percent of the time on recurring tasks. This naturally motivates us to make even greater use of the Automation options in the future.”

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