Case Study: Sable Engineering achieves dramatic time savings and precision machining with Vero Software's WorkNC

Andreas and Joseph Batz of Sable Engineering take business to the next level with WorkNC.

Sable Engineering, founded by Andreas and Joseph Batz in 1999, is a 14-employee Michigan shop that produces automotive, aerospace and medical parts on eight 3- and 5-axis CNC machines. Facing abrasive and hard-to-cut materials, tight tolerances (as fine as ±0.0002) and the need to protect significant machine investments, the company needed faster, more reliable programming and machining workflows.

Sable adopted WorkNC CAM (with Cimatron model imports), leveraging associative CAD/CAM, batch/parallel 64‑bit processing, automatic feature recognition, workzones and STL import from a Steinbichler scanner. The result: faster programming and simultaneous toolpath calculation (processing multiple toolpaths and commonly running 15 programs at once), reliable multi-fixture machining, and dramatic cycle-time reductions — for example, a hand-made prototype that once took a week was replicated in 90 minutes.

Sable Engineering

Andreas Batz

President and Founder