Mars 2005 PANOGEN V5 General presentation PANOGEN Presented by CIMPA.

mars 2005

PANOGEN V5General presentation

PANOGEN

Presented by

CIMPA

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PANOGEN – Description

PANOGEN is a set of dedicated tools, intended to assist the different steps of manufacture of sheet metal parts. These tools allow :

– To prepare and to program elementary parts from Catia V5 parts

– To create the nests and optimize the manufacturing files

– To produce the NC codeThis solution is designed to be used for contour following cutting

machines. The following cutting technologies are taken into account :– Laser

– Water jet

– Ultra sonic and electronic cutter

– Milling

Environment– Windows NT

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PANOGEN –Main features

Part programming

Input: A sheet metal Catpart document

Automatic tasks:

Contours recognition

Manufacturing operations (drilling, contour profiling, pocketing)

Interactive work:

Lugs insertion

Markings insertion

Manufacturing simulation

Output: A PANOGEN part file

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PANOGEN –Main features

Production management

Creation of nesting jobs through easy to use GUI

User interface compliant with the Microsoft standards:

Ergonomic GUI

Customisation of the working environment

Ability to create and process a schedule of parts of different materials

Increase production flexibility

Link with an ERP system

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PANOGEN –Main features

Automatic nesting

Optimisation of the nesting to save material

Respect of the manufacturing constraints

A powerful nesting engine

High Speed of Operation

True shape nesting

Exact distance nesting

Multi-part nesting

Common edge nesting

Preferential hole filling

Nesting on rectangular and non-rectangular sheet

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PANOGEN –Main features

Post-processing

Dedicated post-processor to fit the customer requirements

Optimisation of the NC code

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Roles of tools

PAN-SETUP : Administrative tool to adapt the software with the requirements of your cutting machine.

PAN-PRG for sheet metal (CATIA v5 workbench) : Catia V5 integrated tool to create easily the manufacturing program of a sheet metal part (creation of PANOGEN part file )

PAN-NCVERIFY : Verification and simulation of PANOGEN part files.

PAN-NESTORDER : Production management tool to create nesting jobs.

PAN-NESTING (batch) : Automatic nesting optimizer to maximise material utilisation (creation of PANOGEN nest file)

PAN-NESTEDIT : Edition and visualisation of PANOGEN nest files

PAN-PP : Post-processing (generation of NC files)

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CATIA V5

Synoptic

PAN-SETUP

PAN-PRGPAN-PRG PAN-NC VERIFYPAN-NC VERIFY

PAN-NEST

ORDER

PAN-NEST

ORDER

PAN-NESTING

PAN-NESTING

PAN-NEST EDIT

PAN-NEST EDIT PAN-PPPAN-PP

PANOGENNEST files

(.pan)

NC Files

PLOT Files

PANOGENPART Files

(.pie)

FEEDBACK

PANOGENNESTING job

(.job)

NESTING orders compilationERP

CATParts

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Synoptic of the process

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Steps

• Steps of the process

1. Programming

PAN-PRGPAN-PRG

PAN-NC VERIFYPAN-NC VERIFY

2. Nesting

PAN-NESTORDER

PAN-NESTORDER

PAN-NEST EDIT

PAN-NEST EDIT

PAN-NESTING

PAN-NESTING

3. Post-treatment

PAN-PPPAN-PP

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Terminology

Part file (.pie)File containing all nesting data of a part. This file is generated by the programmer from CATIA V5.

Nest file (.pan)File defining a sheet metal plate or a composite roll and the parts nested inside. This file is generated automatically by PAN-NESTING or manually by PAN-NESTEDIT.

Code Matière Société (CMS)identification number of the material (sized of sheet steel, ribbon of composite), that will be used as nesting support.

NestingNesting of parts in a support to optimize the material usage.

Train (.train)File defining a suite of supports coming from the same job files and generated by a nesting order.

Job files (.job ou .sji)List of orders of a same material to be nested together. The format can vary according to the system of management of workshop used.

OrderEntity of management defining for a part, a quantity to be produced and its priority.

Planning (.pla)File defining several nesting orders of different materials and their associated parameters.

Port-Processor (PP)Tool to convert a Nest file to a NC file (ISO file)

Rivets for skeletonRivets to maintain the pile of sheets, inserted into the support around parts / along the support.

All files mentioned here are ASCII filesAll files mentioned here are ASCII files