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“Caproni“ JSC has continued its partnership with “RAPID PROGRESS LTD” by updating its package of Esprit CAD/CAM and extending its maintenance period. The company is a leading manufacturer of hydraulic components and systems with application in mobile and stationary industrial equipment. Its products are built in the gearboxes of cars, vehicles like buses, trolley buses, utility machines, tractors, combines and other agricultural machinery, electric and motor trucks, lifters, road construction machinery, metal-processing machines and many others. The company offers a wide range of hydraulic products – standard as well as ones ordered by the customer. With the renewal of Esprit CAD/CAM license company will benefit from the improved interface and new software features and its products will continue to be at their traditionally high level.

„Auto Balance System – Technik“ Ltd. was founded in 2010. Its main activity is manufacture of parts and finished products from metals, non-metals and alloys, as well as production of balance weights for tires. The machines, which the company „Auto Balance System – Technik“ Ltd. works with are of high class and up to date, meeting the latest technological requirements and features. For this reason, the company relies on production software of the highest level – Esprit CAD/CAM and recently renewed its license subscription and annual maintenance of the product.

“Oruditsa 2000” Ltd. is well-known and established on the Bulgarian market manufacturer of fasteners for water supply networks, systems for drinking water supply and irrigation systems. Customers of the company are regional and municipal entities of the National Water Supply network in the whole country, private water associations involved in irrigation activities in agricultural fields, as well as many private and municipal construction companies. The company is determined to keep up with modern production trends and as a result decided to involve into their processes Esprit CAD / CAM through partnership with “RAPID PROGRESS LTD”. The software opens up new opportunities in refining the quality of components, increases efficiency and reduces the time of the production process. The visual simulation of manufacturing technology provides reduction of the costs by eliminating the need of using machine time for tests.

„TEHMASH“ Ltd. have recently decided to raise their production processes to a new level and „RAPID PROGRESS LTD“ immediately supported them with this new endeavor. „TEHMASH“ Ltd. was founded in 1996. as a joint Bulgarian – Russian – German venture for developing, manufacturing and testing of new hydraulic products. The activity of the company is related to design, production, implementation and service of hydraulic cylinders, hydraulic components and systems, hydraulic equipment and others. We believe that with the introduction of the latest products of Esprit and Solidworks, „TEHMASH Ltd.” will conduct rapid optimization of its technological processes and will achieve its high goals.

The sixth edition of the annual international specialized exhibition for machines, technologies and industrial equipment – MachTech & InnoTech 2016 will take place in less than a month. All exhibitioners will have the opportunity to demonstrate their competencies and innovations in the period of three workdays, from April 5 to April 8. Rapid Progress Ltd., one of the fastest developing CAD/CAM suppliers in Bulgaria, will take part in the exhibition for a third consecutive year.

The team of Rapid Progress Ltd. will use the opportunity to present the innovations in the CAD/CAM systems that it provides. What is more, the company will offer to the attention of the exhibition’s visitors the newest product in its portfolio, namely the 3D printers, developed by 3D systems – the company’s most recent partner and a pioneer in 3D printing. Being an official partner of DS SOLIDWORKS, ESPRIT, CIMCO, LANTEK, SPACECLAIM ENGINEER, KOMPAS-3D, SolidCAM and 3D SYSTEMS, Rapid Progress Ltd. will also demonstrate software solutions for your business which will give you the real opportunity to get a leading position in the market. A special presentation of Rapid Progress Ltd.’s portfolio will be held on 7^th of April at 2:00 pm.

The team of RAPID PROGRESS LTD. will expect you on their stand and will gladly answer to all your questions.

PARMASH JSC was founded in 1990 in Sliven, Bulgaria. Since the very beginning of the company, the goal of its management team has been to turn PARMASH into a modern company and a leader in the production of household goods at European level.

The PARMASH brand is a symbol of high quality and design, offered at an affordable price. At present, the products of the company enjoy high level of interest among its consumers. PARMASH has an area of over 10 000 square meters, modern equipment and highly-qualified professionals, factors of major importance for the large product capacity of the company and makes it a preferred supplier for major chain stores and wholesalers.

The company has a wide experience in manufacturing custom designed products and also as a partner in cooperative production.

The management of PARMASH has recently made another strategic decision – they chose to invest in business partnership with Rapid Progress Ltd. by implementing a fully-integrated solution for their manufacturing: SOLIDWORKS Premium and a 3D printer – CubePro Duo, developed by 3D SYSTEMS – pioneer in 3D printing.

ESPRIT is a high-performance computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) system for a full range of CNC machines and machine tool applications. This software has been developed by DP Technology Corp. – a leading developer and provider of software tools for programming of mills, turns, EDM machines, as well as multifunctional CNC machines. After successfully proving to be a provider of one of the most reliable and powerful CAM systems in the world, the management of ESPRIT decided that it is time to establish strong position in the market of Eastern Europe, and for this purpose they chose one of their most trusted partners for the position of regional representative – Rapid Progress Ltd. The Bulgarian CAD/CAM expert has successfully proven their professionalism and unmatched competency through the years regarding the leading product in the portfolio of the company – ESPRIT CAD/CAM. The team of Rapid Progress Ltd. managed to win and to justify the trust of a big number of manufacturers in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Romania and others throughout the last six years. A series of training sessions, seminars, open doors and many other events took place for the purpose of presenting the capabilities which the end user of ESPRIT can take advantage of, in order to optimize their workflows and to significantly increase the production levels. Precisely because of all these efforts and the high level of their CAM proficiency, Rapid Progress Ltd takes a deserved position to be a representative of ESPRIT CAD/CAM in Eastern Europe, what is more, the company accepted the responsibility to build a successful network of authorized resellers of ESPRIT CAD/CAM.

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For another consecutive year the team of RAPID PROGRESS LTD. was among the exhibitioners at the International Technical Fair in Plovdiv. The company successfully presented the products of its portfolio to the fair’s visitors. One of the most attractive innovative technologies at the trade show was also presented on the stand of the Bulgarian CAD/CAM expert – the 3D printer CubePro Duo, developed by 3D SYSTEMS – a pioneer in 3D printing and one of the newest partners of RAPID PROGRESS LTD. The representatives of the company managed to answer a variety of professional and non-professional questions, as well as to establish a lot of new contacts.

Nowadays, a large number of companies work with enormous databases containing numerous parts and details manufactured with CNC machines. What is more, the NC programs for those parts are about 5 times more, at some companies their number goes beyond tens of thousands. This is not the regular case, of course; however, many CNC professionals face challenges and workflow issues such as:

• Search and locating of the right NC program.
• Transmit NC program from/to machine’s memory.
• Version management or saving of archive copies.
• Setting of status for a particular NC program, defining level of access or stage of completeness.
• Adding notes, associated with the NC program.
• Automatic generation of tools list by the NC program itself.
• Association of the NC program with schemes of fixtures/positioning.
• Prohibition of NC programs transfer while in edit mode….and many others.

The best solution to these and many other problems is implementation of CIMCO Edit Professional and CIMCO DNC-MAX – two of the most popular software tools for editing, transmitting and managing programs for CNC machines. Transmission of NC programs in the local network is achieved through CIMCO DNC-MAX, and some of the capabilities for communication with the machines’ controls are: Ethernet (LAN cable), Wi-Fi and RS-232, depending on the controls’ characteristics. CIMCO DNC-MAX is a universal tool when we talk about old and new machines/controls, different controllers and their specific communication reports. Exactly these specific and standard communication reports enable us to get out of the frames of the regular data transfer and to put the beginning of continuous communication with the machine – functionality also known as MDC or Machine Data Collection.

Another application of CIMCO Integration is CIMCO MDC-MAX, a specialized MDC system for data collection and monitoring with respect to the work processes on a particular machine/workplace, regardless if it is digitalized or not. The data can be extracted directly from the CNC machine’s controls or from special hardware installed on a non-CNC machine. More data can be sent to the MDC system by operators.

When having this information at our disposal we can analyze in real time:

• Processing cycle time of one part/series of parts/manufacturing order/prototype/ etc.
• Number of good parts produced.
• Number of scrapped parts.
• Give an account of the machining and handling time.
• Give an account of the deviation from planned production time.
• Idle time of machine/workplace.
• Downtime reasons.
• Calculation of the Availability and Performance.
• Computation of the setup time, quality control activities, maintenance, and more.
• Calculating the time, when the machine has been damaged or its controls have displayed alarm message on the controls display.
• The production results achieved by an employee on a particular workplace or a machine.
• OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) – give an account for the factor of efficiency of the equipment….and many others.

Besides the big number of functionalities, the MDC system has the option to announce (by a text message or an email) for any events that have occurred during the manufacturing process, for example: damage, lack of material, missing cutting tool and other. It is possible to collect data for the life of cutting tools, and this data can contribute for the maintenance of optimal inventory levels.
All or selected manufacturing events can be monitored in real time in the form of dynamic tables and timelines; reports, graphics and tables can be generated as well. All the information can be stored in SQL database.

The expert company RAPID PROGRESS LTD. offers and implements software solutions in the area of CAD/CAM/CAE technologies and CNC communications, including the products of CIMCO Integration. A team of certified professionals gets acquainted in details with the companies interested in successful implementation of software for CNC communications and monitoring (DNC and MDC) in order to offer the most suitable and rational solution for their specific business needs.

Sage Technologies Ltd. is one of the youngest Bulgarian companies for manufacturing of machine tools, units, assemblies and electrical devices. The company entered into cooperation with the Bulgarian CAD/CAM expert RAPID PROGRESS LTD. in the very beginning of its business growth. The management of Sage Technologies Ltd. decided to integrate ESPRIT CAM/CAM and SOLIDWORKS Professional into the business process of the company – an integrated solution for high levels of production at high quality. Technical training of the organization’s staff for work with the new software products was started immediately after the contract between Sage Technology and Rapid Progress Ltd. was signed.