Delcam to launch Polish subsidiary at MACHTOOL

Delcam will formally launch its new subsidiary in Poland, Delcam Polska, at the MACHTOOL exhibition to be held in Poznan from 8th to 11th June. The new subsidiary has been formed to coordinate the activities of Delcam’s various resellers in the country, in particular the marketing efforts at MACHTOOL and other Polish events. It will also provide a closer link between Delcam’s growing number of customers in the country and the company’s Birmingham headquarters.

The new subsidiary will be based in the Polish capital Warsaw. It will be headed by Adam Barycki, who has many years’ experience of working with Delcam.

"Our sales in Poland for the opening four months of this year have been more than double the value we achieved at the start of last year,” commented Anthony Hall, Delcam’s European Business Development Manager. "We have formed the new subsidiary to help us continue, or even increase, this growth in our business.”

"We have a number of different resellers that are responsible for the various parts of our business in the country, for example our advanced manufacturing systems, our metrology programs and our artistic CADCAM software,” explained Mr. Hall. "These organisations have been successful because of their expertise in their particular fields and we expect them to continue to expand their businesses.”

"However, with the expansion of our activities in the country, we felt it was now appropriate to have our own subsidiary in Poland. This will improve the coordination between the various resellers and provide a single focal point for our customers, with direct links to the development staff in Birmingham.”

The MACHTOOL exhibition will also see the launch of PowerMILL 2010, the first 64-bit version of Delcam’s CAM software for high-speed and five-axis machining. 64-bit technology removes the memory limitations of 32-bit computers so giving more efficient toolpath generation, especially when machining large or complex parts. The new release also continues to improve user productivity by extending the use of the latest background-processing and multi-threading technologies available in recent hardware. The combination of these two developments is estimated to reduce calculation times by up to 25%, although this will depend on the size and complexity of the part.

More than 50 other enhancements have been included in the new release to give faster and easier programming, more efficient toolpaths and better surface quality in the finished parts. These include new strategies for offset roughing, corner clearance, five-axis machining and constant-Z machining, plus more efficient rest roughing, and smoother toolpaths for semi-finishing and finishing.