CNC Machining Technology

There's an ancient proverb that remains true even in this digital age: "When brains are needed, brawn won't help." While our wide variety of machines can provide the strength and power to handle your job, our biggest competitive advantage is the ability to use technology to turn these brutes into mechanical wizards that can master complex challenges. That's why we have invested in the software to make these machines live up to their full potential.

SolidWorks: The first step in manufacturing a part is to create a 3D design of it as a computer file. As a Solid Works Manufacturing Partner, NCAD Products, Inc. is dedicated to supporting the industry and working with manufacturers to get new products to market faster. This 3D mechanical design software is the industry standard.Our team, like the software itself, is innovative, yet proven.

Mastercam & CAMWorks: Step two is to turn the 3D computer file into instructions for the CNC machine. Mastercam remains the program of choice among many CNC programmers. At the same time, we have discovered that TekSoft's suite of CAM products (including CAMworks), has its advantages as well. Purchasing both products has allowed us to match the best program for your part or product with the best machine.

JobBOSS: Step three is to manage your project effectively and ensure that it is delivered on time. We rely on JobBOSS, the most widely used workflow software designed for custom manufacturers. It allows us to accurately quote, schedule, track, purchase materials and control the inventory for all of our customer's jobs. Good scheduling allows us to keep our machines busy, without overbooking or creating bottlenecks in the system.

High Tech(Low Cost) Fixturing

At NCAD Products, Inc. we employ the Bluco High Tech Modular Fixturing Systems for welding. It allows us to deliver accurate and consistent fixturing every time.

The design of the fixture is done inside SolidWorks, a 3D CAD system, giving us the ability to define and fixture the completed weldment prior to manufacture. We work through any possible design issues or shortcomings. This allows our staff to plan the work and effectively manage our customer's expectations. This weldment has multiple compound angles that were fixtured and constrained accurately and repeated multiple times for this sub-weldment. Having completed the fixture design in SolidWorks allowed for our fixture to be setup with precision.

Turn Key Welding

All of the machined components for this intermediate weldment were CNC cut on site in one of our many vertical CNC machining centers. Having complete manufacturing control allows us to hit the mark for best customer satisfaction. By using a modular welding fixture system, the configuration can be changed to accommodate larger, more sophisticated weldments. This dynamic flexibility allows NCAD Products, Inc. to provide a large size capacity to the end customer. We use the power of Variable Frequency Technology. Lincoln Chopper Technology® delivers more welding processes - MIG and flux-cored, along with excellent stick welding, TIG and advanced processes such as Power Mode™ and Pulse-on-Pulse®. In addition, future waveforms of special or improved welding processes can be downloaded into the Power MIG.

Weld Shop Vocabulary

(MIG) Metal Inert Gas Welding- is a semi-automatic or automatic arc welding process in which a continuous and consumable wire electrode and a shielding gas are fed through an automated welding gun. (TIG) Tungsten Inert Gas Welding - is an arc welding process that uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode to produce the arc to melt a filler metal to create a weld. The weld area is protected from atmospheric contamination be a shielding gas.

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