Delcam wins order from world's largest mould making group

Prior to this worldwide contract, Delcam had sold more than 150 seats to the ARRK group, making the company one of its largest customers. Before making its decision, ARRK further benchmarked and evaluated various Japanese CAM suppliers and choose Delcam’s PowerMILL due to its strength in large-scale, multi-axis machining. Delcam has entered into a contract with the ARRK group covering the supply of software and maintenance at all the company’s sites worldwide and will continue support of its existing customers within the group. Regarding its decision-making process, ARRK said, “Since ARRK’s business has delivery performance as a priority, we believe that accurate and prompt machining is an important factor in ensuring our customers’ confidence and profitability. We were seeking a CAM system which is cost effective but still meets our requirements.Large-scale machining, in particular, requires accurate modelling ability and shortened calculation times as the most important factors. Moreover, it also requires an effective combination of manual and automated processes, plus accurate data translation. As a recent trend, we have been asked to machine not only from surface data but also from the polygon data in STL files. We were having difficulty in finding a CAM system which met all of these requirements. “PowerMILL was originally introduced by our European group. We then evaluated the software in Japan and came to the conclusion that it met most of our requirements. We, therefore, plan to introduce the software into all our large-scale machining projects from now on.” ARRK has been a pioneer in prototype manufacture and has grown steadily in Japan. Now its business is increasing globally and its subsidiaries and joint ventures can be seen in most major industrial countries. The result is that ARRK has become the largest mouldmaking group in the world.