monitoring and analysis of shop-fl oor productivity. The North American unit of Cimco A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark), Cimco Americas also has CNC-Calc, a basic CAD/CAM program for the shop fl oor, plus other applications including Edit 7, DNC- Max 7 (distributed NC) software for communication of CNC programs, and a Product Data Management (PDM) package for managing, controlling and securely storing all production- related data. Cimco’s database products come standard with MySQL, an open-source SQL database—unless users want to upgrade to the full SQL versions, which require a license. “MySQL is a free database,” said Jody Romanowski, Cimco CEO. “It’s part of our installation, or we can connect MS SQL, but then the system will be more costly because the customer will have to purchase and maintain a SQL server.” In many circumstanc- es, Cimco's software actually performs better and has lower administrative requirements with MySQL, which is now owned by Oracle, Romanowski noted.
With Cimco’s PDM software, shops easily manage and track the latest CAD/CAM part programs, helping to reduce scrap and errors caused by using outdated part programs.
“To compete, machine shops have to fi nd any way possi- ble to make effi cient use of personnel,” she said. “That means eliminating work that is redundant or that can be automated, and having the data you need exactly when you need it, so production is not slowed down. Our customers are looking for products that will help them do more with less people, and they’re using technology to help them.”
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