MetaCAM Enterprise is a production management software that integrates engineering data, ERP data, and production operations on the shop floor. It aims to automate and streamline traditional manufacturing processes like part programming, file storage and retrieval, revision tracking, operator interfaces, scheduling, and data analysis. Key features include automatic part programming to reduce errors, powerful search capabilities for engineering files, real-time revision tracking, digital operator interfaces, automatic scheduling and data transfer to the shop floor, and analytics to identify bottlenecks and improve productivity. The software allows manufacturers to achieve lights-out production, reduce manual errors, and gain real-time visibility across the production lifecycle.

1. Presenter: Kartik Iyer

2. MetaCAM Enterprise is an Integrated Production
Environment (IPE) that manages and automates
production from a single window

3. Top Level Block Diagram
Engineering (CAD) Data ERP Data
Production (Shop Floor)

4. Enterprise Structural Flowchart
Engineering/ Design
Planner
Operator Control
Process Parts on machine
Give feedback
Enterprise Server
Estimator / Sales Rep
Auto Tool and Archive in Part Library
Supervisor
Monitor Process (Dashboard)
Edit Jobs, Approve Layouts
Plant Manager
CAD CAM Workstation
Search Parts and Create Jobs

5. Traditional Part Tooling Process
• Involves a Trained Programmer
Limitations
• Programmer manually programs the part
• Repetitive tasks that can often result in errors
• Time consuming process
• Often a specialist skill developed creates
dependencies
• 9 -5, M – F, not a lights out process

6. Super Tooler
Features:
• Automatically tool parts for multiple machines
• Quickly locate tooling errors and rectify them
• Suppress machines from programming certain
type of parts
• Update revisions across all machines on the
shop floor
• Only preview parts with errors and leave the
rest to Enterprise
Benefits:
• Programing time reduced drastically
• Enables to get parts out of machines even in
the absence of a programmer. 24/7/365
• Eliminates manual errors.

7. Traditional File Storage
• On windows file servers
Limitations
• Slow Access
• Large Volumes of Data
• Opening a CAM file can take up to a few
minutes.
• Sometimes searching for the file takes longer
than actual tooling time.

8. Power Search
Features:
• Create custom queries and save them
for reuse
• Search for Parts by name, material,
size, tools or all these criteria
• Filter and Group parts by properties
for easy analysis
• Search through all types of files –
Metacam, Soldiworks, DXF, 3d CAD
Benefit:
• Reduces search time to fraction of the original
• Seamless connection to CAD data

9. Traditional Revision Tracking
• Mostly non-existant in CAM systems
• Driven by the CAD software
Limitations
• History of old data unavailable
• Difficult to spot the changes
• Redo complex manual tooling with every tool
change

10. Revision Tracking
Features:
• Track revision differences
• Inherit information from previous versions
(tooling, material etc.)
• Compare and review any two revisions to see
changes
Benefit:
• Even old revisions can be fabricated bringing in
flexibility to the whole system
• Real time revision tracking leading to less errors

11. Traditional Operator Interface
• Paper packets with job information
Limitations
• Limited Data with limited detail
• Wastage of large amounts of paper
• Difficult to search through completed jobs or
in process jobs.
• No graphical or video priviews.

12. Operator Interfaces
Features:
• Scheduled nests
automatically appear on the
Operator console
• Operator can run jobs and
keep track of nests
• NC code and standard reports
are easily available
Benefits:
• Reduce the overall paper trail in the shop
• Actively keep track of jobs completed at each machine
• Error parts can be reported and sent back for renest in real
time

13. Traditional Scheduler Interface
• Performed by planning department
Limitations
• Involves several levels of human verification.
• Unsure of reliability of data.
• Difficult to get a overview of total picture
• Data is not real time.

14. Scheduler
Features:
• Automatically transfer data to the shop
floor
• Keep track of production at each machine
• Operator records production and reports
scrapped parts
Benefits:
• Eliminates manual data transfer to the shop floor
• Keep track of live data on the shop floor
• Faster reaction to issues on the floor
• Predict bottlenecks before they hit you.

15. Traditional Design Data
• Independent department with less to do with
production
Limitations
• Design changes take time to propagate to the
floor.
• Disconnect between manufacturing and
design.

16. Example SolidWorks Integration
Features: Benefits:
• Import sldprt into Enterprise • Seamless workflow (conversion from
from Solidworks directly CAD to CAM)
• Automatically create part files • Ease of use
from sldprt files • CAD to CAM without losing any CAD
• Manage multiple revisions data
• Less time to program

17. Traditional Data Analysis
• Typically no data recorded results hence no
data analysis.
Limitations
• Unable to identify bottlenecks
• Results in lower productivity
• Dependent on feedback from the floor that is
not reliable.

18. Enterprise – Next Step
• Operator Console - Press Brakes
– Flat Development View
– Press Brake program / Simulation
– Track the production status by work cell.

19. Data Analysis
Features:
• Discover which machine/operator gives you Benefits:
most productivity • Less time to make decisions
• Be informed when you have to replace • Know whether you have to increase
ageing tools capacity
• Keep track of productivity of each operator • Find out if any machine needs maintenance
on a shift • Schedule jobs on machines based on their
work load

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