World Machinery announces partnership with CAD/CAM software provider Lantek

World machinery MD Wayne Hipkiss comments, ‘We have worked with Lantek for some time in order to deliver a full turnkey package to our customers; it is one thing to buy the right machine, but also vital to make sure it is integrated into your production system in order to achieve the machine’s full potential.’

‘Lantek provides a very flexible and powerful solution that is also very easy to use and has been proven time and again to really get the best out of both the new and used machines we have supplied. The technical support and customer service is also excellent, so it made sense for us to make the partnership official.’

World machinery specialises in supplying laser cutting machines, CNC punch and turret presses, plasma and water jet cutting machines, along with press brakes and guillotines. While Lantek provides solutions tailored to all these machines, it is in laser cutting machines that it and World machinery really excel; World Machinery having just won the rights to supply Mitsubishi’s market leading laser processing machines exclusively to the UK market.

The deal coincides with the introduction of the latest generation of Lantek’s Expert Cut software designed specifically to integrate Laser cutting machines with the majority of CAD platforms, achieving the highest component output and fastest turnaround times possible.

Rob Powell UK Managing Director commented, ‘We are delighted to become an official partner company to World Machinery, as an organisation we work in partnership with many other businesses and find it is extremely effective at building trust and long-term, profitable business relationships. It has given us a great deal of satisfaction to be able to go in and really make the machines World Machinery supplies work for people, improving their efficiency and profitability from the word ‘go’.

The latest innovative Lantek Expert Cut CAD/CAM package from Lantek is designed specifically to allow easy integration of laser machines into existing production facilities, it allows virtually any existing CAD platform to work seamlessly with the machine, as well as set-up and execute jobs either created by, or imported into, the Lantek software platform.

Powell continues, ‘Having the latest Mitsubishi demo machine at World machinery’s new HQ allows us to demonstrate how the Lantek Expert Cut product offers features specifically designed to automate the programming of sheet metal cutting machines. It is the result of more than 20 years experience in close collaboration with both manufacturers and users of these types of machines and perfectly combines machine technology with customers’ programming and management requirements. Being able to demo it live is very powerful, and we also have a very strong track record of providing software support and integration for machines sold and commissioned by World machinery, so good references for our ability to get customers up and running straight away with their new machine.'

Lantek Expert Cut suite is a flexible CAD / CAM system specially designed to automate the programming of sheet metal cutting machines (oxicut, plasma, laser, water jet). The laser cutting technology modules are specific for each type of machine, providing management of reduced lead-ins, lead-in with runback, customised piercing, sprintlaser, microjoints, microwelds, head management, contour attributes, manual and automatic extractions, etc.

Lantek is also an extremely good value solution; rather than sell a shell software system and charge more for specific function and integration modules, all options are fully integrated. All the options of Lantek Expert are fully integrated in a single program, so designing a part, importing, nesting (automatic or manual), generating the cut (automatic or manual), generating the CNC, looking at the sheet metal store, can be achieved from the same program without switching between programs.

Lantek Expert is also ready for connection to production management systems (ERP). All parts info is saved in databases organised in such a way that users can easily locate the part and sheet required, as these are classified by fields like material, thickness, date, customer. The remnant automatically generated by the system is saved in the sheet inventory like any other sheet metal and can be used for future jobs.

Lantek Expert also calculates time and cost of cutting any part and also the entire sheet. Taking into account the number of piercings, the cut length, the mark length, the material costs, the hourly machine rate, the cost of consumables and based on the actual machine data. A smart Importer/Exporter also allows easy connection with the most common CAD systems and file types on the market: DXF, DWG, IGES, etc.

Manual and automatic nesting with great flexibility and maximum performance are easy to achieve. The perfect combination of automatic and semi-automatic nesting along with powerful manual nesting functions like: copying, moving, rotating, adjoining. Lantek Expert’s automatic nesting optimises the arrangement of parts on the sheet. Nothing is wasted as Lantek Expert generates nestings on remnants, making it one of the most cost effective independent CAD/CAM solution so the market and an ideal companion to World Machinery’s expertise in supplying the right machine.