World Machinery and Lantek establish partnership

The deal coincides with the introduction of the latest generation of Lantek's Expert Cut software, designed specifically to integrate laser cutting machines with the majority of CAD platforms, achieving the highest component output and fastest turnaround times possible. World machinery managing director Wayne Hipkiss said: 'We have worked with Lantek for some time in order to deliver a full turnkey package to our customers; it is one thing to buy the right machine, but also vital to make sure it is integrated into your production system in order to achieve the machine's full potential." "Lantek provides a very flexible and powerful solution that is also very easy to use and has been proven time and again to really get the best out of both the new and used machines we have supplied. The technical support and customer service is also excellent, so it made sense for us to make the partnership official." Lantek's UK managing director, Rob Powell, added: "We are delighted to become an official partner company to World Machinery. As an organisation, we work in partnership with many other businesses and find it is extremely effective at building trust and long-term, profitable business relationships. It has given us a great deal of satisfaction to be able to go in and really make the machines World Machinery supplies work for people, improving their efficiency and profitability from the word 'go'." The Lantek Expert Cut suite is a flexible CADCAM system specially designed to automate the programming of sheet metal cutting machines (oxicut, plasma, laser, water jet). The laser cutting technology modules are specific for each type of machine, providing management of reduced lead-ins, lead-in with runback, customised piercing, sprintlaser, microjoints, microwelds, head management, contour attributes, manual and automatic extractions, etc. All the options of Lantek Expert are fully integrated in a single program, so designing a part, importing, nesting (automatic or manual), generating the cut (automatic or manual), generating the CNC, looking at the sheet metal store, can be achieved from the same program without switching between programs. Lantek Expert is also ready for connection to production management systems (ERP), while it also calculates time and cost of cutting any part and also the entire sheet.