Case Study: Gibbs Gears achieves 45-hour milling time savings with Vero Software Edgecam

Edgecam Waveform Roughing Moves Gibbs Up a Gear

Gibbs Gears, a UK gear specialist supplying aerospace, motorsport, medical, subsea and commercial sectors, faced inefficiencies in programming, setup and long cycle times on low- to medium-volume runs of hardened tool steels and exotic alloys. Typical milling operations on a 30-part batch of gears would each take around two hours, prompting the company to pursue offline CAM to support its lean improvement targets and more accurate quoting.

By adopting Edgecam—notably its Waveform Roughing strategy—Gibbs cut each milling operation from about two hours to 29 minutes, saving an astonishing 45 hours on the 30-gear run, using a single Ø16 mm roughing endmill and reducing tooling costs. Edgecam now drives roughly 60% of their parts, improves feeds-and-speeds control, frees operators to run additional machines, supports quoting from STEP files, and has been extended to wire EDM and other processes.

Gibbs Gears

Dominic Prinsloo

Technical Manager