Pendarvis Manufacturing, TrueMill ® Case Study

Pendarvis Manufacturing, founded in 1982, began as a small family-run machine shop and has since grown in size to accomodate the growing need for custom manufacturing. Currently the company services much of Southern California.

"The implementation of SURFCAM Velocity 4 Powered by TrueMill has allowed us to drastically reduce our programming and machining times. One of our projects, a large steel plate with a pocket, used to take almost 4 hours to machine. By controlling the Tool Engagement Angle with TrueMill, we were able to machine with much faster parameters and reduce the machining time to less than one hour while improving the overall tool life.

"The seamless interface between SolidWorks and SURFCAM has helped us win back work that just a few years back was not possible for us to do. Finally, SURFCAM's ability to write programs and then modify them quickly and accurately has helped reduce labor and material costs. When working with a family of parts we can save time because it is easy to cut and paste similar routines and program segments."