Released on: July 8, 2008, 6:42 am

Press Release Author: Thomas R. Cutler

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Eliminating Excessive Rotation in Nesting Yields Lean Results
from Vision Emulation by Optimation

Press Release Body: The elimination of excessive rotation (trial and error nesting)
will permit a direct bottom-line cost savings as well as lean efficiencies. For
thirty years Optimation® has been the world leader in Part Nesting for Optimized
Material and Labor utilization. Consistently providing product advancement
leadership to industry, the company's new Nesting Technology, AxiomVE make previous
nesting methods obsolete. The new technology, Vision EmulationT, allows the system
to "see" the shape of parts, just as human eyes would view them. When a person
looks at a part, they see the whole shape and any special features on the part.
This information is then used to determine if the part will fit in an area of the
nest. Vision Emulation eliminates excessive trial and error as well as excessive
rotation.
AxiomVE looks at the part and determines without trial and error the optimal
rotation. A part may need to be rotated 124.372 degrees to fit optimally. AxiomVE
determines that optimal rotation without undo trial and error. Because of this new
technology called Vision Emulation that allows the system to \"see\" the shape of the
parts as a human sees. When a person looks at a part, they see the whole shape and
any special features on the part. They use this information to determine if the part
will fit in an area of the nest
According to Michael D. Lundy, P.E., President & CEO of Optimation, "Our company has
developed a nesting technology that considers the alternatives and guarantees the
highest efficiency while insuring that production schedule and priorities are
optimized. Standard Heuristics crash badly when presented with real world problems.
New Multi-Dimensional-Combinatorial-Nesting technology (MDCN) transcends previous
nesting methods. It is critical to have the tools to \"see\" the shape of the part
and \"see\" the shape of the available material and select the best part at the
optimal angle. Previously, nesting systems had to rotate parts in small increments
and try to fit the part after each rotation. This is time consuming and leads to
wrong results. Some of our competitors brag about rotating parts at one degree
increments. That type of trial and error nesting is now obsolete."
Optimation offers benchmarking against any other method of part nesting; recent
benchmarks have show improvements up to 15% in material efficiency alone. As lean
efficiencies are essential, the most advanced nesting technology guarantees the most
important parts are always nested in the next available machine, providing advanced
information to integrated costing, labor reporting, and material inventory systems.
Because Optimation is strong financially and has the most advanced technology; the
company offers direct financing from its own capital resources.

Optimation
www.optimation.com
Michael D Lundy P.E.
Opti1@optinest.com
877-827-2100


Web Site: http://www.optimation.com

Contact Details: Optimation
704 NW Mock Street
Blue Springs, MO 64015
816-228-2100