Case Study: Tennant Company reduces machine downtime with Tebis CAD/CAM automation

Tennant Company cuts programming time from 30 minutes to 2-3 minutes with Tebis

Tennant Company, a global supplier of industrial cleaning equipment, faced significant machine downtime with 40% of run time spent cutting air. Their high-mix, low-volume production of custom weld fixtures required a more efficient CAM programming solution to handle thousands of holes machined monthly. They partnered with vendor Tebis to implement its CAD/CAM software with feature recognition capabilities.

The solution from Tebis automated the programming process. Its software automatically identifies features like holes and assigns pre-defined processes, reducing programming time from 30 minutes to just two or three minutes per component. This eliminated the bottleneck, drastically reducing machine downtime. As a result, Tennant Company reduced its programming seats from four to one to support four machines, with the machines now unable to keep up with the programming output.

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