In addition, the new version provides solutions for controlling the simplest to the most sophisticated data in a manufacturing plant. Lantek’s products and services can be adapted to all types of sheet metal cutting and punching applications. Solutions are universal, compatible with all makes of machine and can be integrated into any company’s management system.

The 2013 version of Lantek’s CAD/CAM software provides advances in the calculation of nests. The new system, based on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence ‘ThinkingMetal’ technology, incorporates powerful algorithms and mathematical morphology strategies which enable sheets to be optimised easily, avoiding errors in the machining process and producing a significant reduction in wasted material as well as shorter production times.

Industry specific features include nesting by areas, sheet turning, the ability to modify the cutting order, reordering of contours following hole destruction, cutting the line of remnant at the beginning of an area, and the rectangular cutting of the skeleton of the metal sheet. Furthermore, the software incorporates new logic for five-axis machines.