Case Study: BRC Engineering achieves product-line growth and streamlined multi-task machining with 3D Systems (GibbsCAM)

Growing a Product Line and Investments with GibbsCAM

BRC Engineering is a Calgary-based, family-owned precision machine shop founded in 1997 that now focuses primarily on complex oil-and-gas components made from exotic alloys. Faced with a tight, volatile market and the need to stand out while producing low-volume, high-value parts and launching its own consumable product line, BRC needed to improve efficiency, accuracy and scalability without losing its engineering-driven problem-solving identity.

BRC leaned on its engineering expertise and invested in multi-tasking equipment and software—most notably a Mori Seiki NT4200 with GibbsCAM MTM—plus larger Doosan PUMA lathes and a Zeiss Accura CMM. Those changes cut multi-step processes to near “done-in-one” runs, reduced manual intervention, improved tool life and metrology, and helped BRC introduce durable consumables (seats, valves, plungers, chokes and manifolds) that deliver 2–3× the life of competitors’ parts while expanding capacity and competitiveness.

BRC Engineering

Anthony Ritcey

Programming Manager