Micrographics has been fortunate to have built a strong relationship with Jendamark over the years. Jendamark recently completed the task of exploring and implementing Fusion 360 into their workflow and we chatted to Marinus Van Rooyen, Jendamark’s Manufacturing and assembly manager about the processes they followed in achieving such impressive outcomes.
“Jendamark was exploring alternative options of programming software in our Machine Shop. The main areas requiring improvement that they were wanting to address were:
“The direct benefits associated with the choice of Fusion 360 I listed below:
“As Jendamark, was already utilizing Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk fusion was a logical option to pursue due to our familiarity with:
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Jendamark has partnered with Micrgraphics for training purposes, Micrographics has branches in all major centres across the country for ease of access. Micrographics is also able offer training to suit every need with the offering of in-class, online or self-paced study. Jendamark has focussed predominantly on Inventor & Fusion training. Jendamark has exceptionally high standards and often send their students for a second training course after a couple of months of on site experience, this ensures that the new staff have in fact had practical experience and can apply the theory far better in the second course.
Jendamark has signed an SLA with Micrographics ensuring that we have an open flow of constant communication and support. As with any big software change, a decent amount of foregoing assessments had to be done before deciding on an alternative. Main factors considered were cost, integration from old to new, training and on-going support. From the onset, MGFX was involve to assist and guide us through the whole transition process. Apart from “How to use” the software, a big change of mind-set was the move to store programming data on a cloud system and not on conventional storage space. Foreign for a machine shop environment where we are use to touch and feel how and what we do.
The “How to use” was also simplified with focused training sessions and relevant training material. Having dealt with MGFX for many years, I was confident in knowing that MGFX knew our business and understood our technical requirements. On site visits by MGFX was also a big help to get the team going and the support given by MGFX also proved to my machine shop team that MGFX was no just a re-seller of software. They were and still is an integral part of the overall product delivered. Further development is on-going as our machine shop environment evolves and machining requirements change.
With the optimization of manufacturing processes and with the implementation of Fusion 360 in our machine shop, we achieved some of the following targets:
• We’ve reduced programming time by roughly 20-25%47 Shirley Street, Newton Park,
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