CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 July 2004
Implementation Investments
National Steel Car Selects DELMIA IGRIP 3D Robotic Solution
Digital manufacturing supplier Delmia Corp. ( http://www.delmia.com ), a Dassault Systemes company ( http://www.3ds.com ) announced that National Steel Car Ltd., of Hamilton, Ontario, has selected its IGRIP 3D Robotic Programming Solution for offline robotic programming and simulation of its blast-cleaning robots. National Steel Car will use IGRIP 3D to eliminate tool collisions in a high-pressure abrasive blasting process that cleans freight cars for painting.
DELMIA IGRIP was recommended to National Steel Car by the manufacturer of its robot system, who has worked on previous robot programming projects with Delmia Corp.'s strategic business partner, Delfoi. To implement the solution, Delfoi will create a special abrasive blasting application on top of IGRIP, which helps the customer to create new blast-cleaning programs for their robots.
"Manual programming of robots inevitably leads to large amounts of non-productive robot time," said Steve Kuzler, electrical engineer at National Steel Car. "The ability to program offline and simulate a robot path prior to production will save us an enormous amount of time and eliminate the potential for collisions between robots, parts, tools and fixtures. In addition, the paint option allows us to develop and simulate the right blast pattern for different applications, improving system cycle time."
National Steel Car manufactures railway rolling stock, including box, center beam, gondola, coil, hopper, and intermodal freight cars. Its production facility has six assembly lines and covers more than 100 acres. The company currently employs about 2500 people. For more information visit http://www.steelcar.com
Delfoi, a strategic business partner of Delmia Corp., develops, markets and supports digital manufacturing solutions and related consulting and integration services that enable companies to speed up and streamline their product creation and product delivery processes. With Delfoi products and services, companies can integrate and automate the engineering-to-execution process. More information is available at http://www.delfoi.com
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