Indeed you’re on Eurotec website and it’s not just a coffee break but a technical information. A decade with Delcam helps Revol Porcelaine, one of the leading manufacturers of ceramics in France to international success. The company has completed a decade as a customer for Delcam’s CADCAM systems, having chosen the company as the best technical partner for its modelling and manufacturing operations in 2001. The software, together with the technical innovation, creativity and perseverance of the Passot family, has taken the Revol brand to international success.
All Revol designs are produced with PowerSHAPE, including this ceramic representation of a plastic cup.
Revol’s designers use Delcam’s PowerSHAPE CAD software, ArtCAM artistic CADCAM and PowerMILL CAM system to model the designs and to develop the manufacturing processes. The shape of the part is created with PowerSHAPE directly or from scan data of physical models. Detailed decorations are produced with ArtCAM to complete the design. PowerSHAPE is then used to create the moulds for the pieces. Allowances have to be made for the fact that the resin acquires its final form only after being fired in a tunnel or cell kiln for about nine hours. Then, the machining data is generated by PowerMILL. The complete process is monitored at every stage with the PS-Team workflow management system.
From concept to finished parts The software plays a major part in Revol’s ability to generate 50% new designs in its range in each year. “We chose Delcam software because of the fit with the different parts of our operations,” explained Patrick Currat, Manager of the engineering department. “The solution allows us to work from concept to finished piece in a single system. As a consequence, what took us three weeks is now done in five days. Moreover, we can easily change a project in a few minutes if our partners want to change a design.”
For further information on Delcam’s CADCAM software, please contact Peter Dickin, Marketing Manager Direct phone: 44 (0)121 683 1081 [email protected]
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