Case Study: Tonasco achieves faster cycle times and collision-free machining with Hexagon NCSIMUL

Tonasco - Customer Case Study

Tonasco, a specialist precision-components contract manufacturer, was seeking new ways to improve productivity and flexibility in their workshops. Their key challenges included the need to verify and simulate CNC programs offline to prevent costly machine collisions and downtime, as well as to optimize existing NC programs to reduce cycle time and improve tool life. To address this, they turned to vendor Hexagon and implemented its NCSIMUL Machine software for verification and simulation.

The solution from Hexagon involved creating digital twins of Tonasco's CNC machines within the NCSIMUL environment, allowing for complete offline program verification. This was followed by the implementation of the Optitool module to automatically optimize cutting parameters and reduce air cutting. The results were significant, including a reduction in manual prove-out process time by up to 80%, the achievement of 100% collision-free machining, and the securing of a return on investment in under six months due to hundreds of hours of saved machining time.

Tonasco

Toon Moors

Technical Director