NCSIMUL

Your comprehensive G-code verification software for smart CNC machining

Smart CNC Simulation Software

Discover the potential of a digital twin

Do your goals include increasing productivity, while reducing shopfloor costs with optimised and automated digital processes, including flexible and collision-free machining?

NCSIMUL combines the digital advancements of “Industry 4.0” with the real-life demands of CNC machining in a way that is both practical and user friendly.

Because of this, NCSIMUL is so much more than just G-code verification software. It provides a digital platform where it is possible to manage your CNC programs across the entire shop floor.

NCSIMUL is deployed by global OEMs, small and medium-sized companies and suppliers worldwide across multiple different industries, including the mechanical engineering, automotive, aerospace, defence, transportation, energy and medical technology sectors.

A comprehensive solution

With an innovative and seamless process

NCSIMUL enables collision-free and flexible CNC machining with automated processes to maximise your shopfloor productivity.

Based on virtual machines that are digital twins of your real machines, your NC programs are validated in advance for possible errors and collisions, and can be automatically converted for use on different machine types and controls, effectively reducing dry runs and programming times.

Your team benefits from continuously updated data in a seamless workflow.

NCSIMUL is a modular- built solution that can be perfectly adapted to your needs:

•  Accurate G-code simulation
•  Optimisation of machining times
•  Interoperability with existing CAM
•  Tool management – DIN/ISO standardised
•  Real-time monitoring
•  Digital documentation

YOUR BENEFITS

Avoid crashes and collisions

• Safe and collision-free machining
• No tool, head or spindle breakage
• No need for prove outs on the machine
• Increased safety for machine operators

Speed up your part production

• Reduced set-up time
• Avoidance of CNC downtime due to errors
• Prove out G-code on your computer before machining
• Optimised production processes

Optimised resources and machining results

• Reduced raw material wastage
• Confidently run your machines unattended

NCSIMUL Machine

Your high-speed 3D NC simulation

NCSIMUL machine simulation accounts for all of your machine’s parameters, including:

• Initial positioning of the part on the table
• Clamp addition/removal during machining
• Part rotation/translation between two programs
• Manual tool mounting
• Operator data input
• Command validation
• G & M-codes logic
• Tool compensation (diameter, length)
• NC controller logic
• Calculation of cycle times (block by block or cumulatively)
• Machine kinematics and limits
• Maximum feed rate and the direction of each axis
• Spindle torque
• Axis acceleration/decelerat

NCSIMUL Optitool

Powerful optimisation of your CNC machining times

Maximise your production capacities

• Reduce re-programming time between machines from days to hours
• Use new machines earlier in production
• Flexible production: react faster to short term changes

NCSIMUL 4CAM

Automatic conversion of your CNC programs

Prefigured, integrated and DIN/ISO standardised

• Inventory optimisation
• 45 per cent time savings on tool preparation
• Adaptations made easy – thanks to an integrated 3D module
• Knowledge transparency: all tool information is up to date including change history
• Seamless interaction between process planning and the shop floor with a continuous dataflow

NCSIMUL Tool

3D tool management – DIN/ISO standardised

With NCSIMUL Tool, you can integrate your digital tools into the global production process and optimise your tool cycle, using simplified import functions and pre-configured master models. Changes and adjustments to components can be made directly within the 3D module.