Losier Corporation
Lozier Corporation manufactures store fixtures and has 6 manufacturing facilities across the US occupying 3 million sq feet of manufacturing and warehouse space. Since the purchase of their first CNC turret punch machine in 1992 they have rapidly expanded to a range of 21 CNC punch and laser machines, some with automatic loading/unloading equipment or incorporated in an FMS system. As a result they also acquired a whole range of different CNC programming and nesting systems. Because of this, parts and nests had to be constantly remade in different CAM systems to run on different machines, reports were not standardized, training of staff was difficult and costly and most nesting layouts had to be created manually, as some of the systems had either inefficient or no automatic nesting capabilities at all. Furthermore, no single person had experience across all programming software, making effective production of CNC programs impossible...
* 1 - Bystronic ByStar 3015 in FMS/Tower system
* 9 - Mazak NTX48
* 1 - Mazak STX48
* 1 - Mazak NTX510
* 2 - Mazak STX510
* 1 - Amada Pega 357 with L/UL system
* 1 - Strippit 1250 XP
* 1 - Strippit 1250 S
* 1 - Finn Power F6 Express with L/UL system
* 3 - Finn Power SG6 each with Load system
4Driving 21 punching and
laser machines across 5
machine brands
4Replaced six CAM systems
with one
4The best out of three
systems benchmarked with
laser nests up to 5% more
efficient and ongoing
material savings on punching
nests of up to 11.4%
4All six facilities installed
within 1 week and ready for
Lozier’s use
4Part programming time
reduced dramatically.
Machine cycle time reduced
by 5%. Automatic nesting
time reduced by 50%
4Modification to postprocessor
allows for easy restart from
any point of NC program
4RCP allows nests to be
automatically generated
using JETCAM Orders
Controller (JOC)
4Optimized lead-ins,
commonline cutting,part
mirroring and hole
avoidance all reduce cutting
time and material waste
4Operators proficient after two
days of training
4All part, nesting and NC files
now in a single location
serving all plants remotely
4Revision control used to
identify part and material
mismatches between
Lozier’s MRP system and
JOC
4Software maintenance
decreased by 40%
4Easy to backup, restore or
transfer between PCs
4System expected to pay for
itself in under 12 months
* 9 - Mazak NTX48
* 1 - Mazak STX48
* 1 - Mazak NTX510
* 2 - Mazak STX510
* 1 - Amada Pega 357 with L/UL system
* 1 - Strippit 1250 XP
* 1 - Strippit 1250 S
* 1 - Finn Power F6 Express with L/UL system
* 3 - Finn Power SG6 each with Load system
4Driving 21 punching and
laser machines across 5
machine brands
4Replaced six CAM systems
with one
4The best out of three
systems benchmarked with
laser nests up to 5% more
efficient and ongoing
material savings on punching
nests of up to 11.4%
4All six facilities installed
within 1 week and ready for
Lozier’s use
4Part programming time
reduced dramatically.
Machine cycle time reduced
by 5%. Automatic nesting
time reduced by 50%
4Modification to postprocessor
allows for easy restart from
any point of NC program
4RCP allows nests to be
automatically generated
using JETCAM Orders
Controller (JOC)
4Optimized lead-ins,
commonline cutting,part
mirroring and hole
avoidance all reduce cutting
time and material waste
4Operators proficient after two
days of training
4All part, nesting and NC files
now in a single location
serving all plants remotely
4Revision control used to
identify part and material
mismatches between
Lozier’s MRP system and
JOC
4Software maintenance
decreased by 40%
4Easy to backup, restore or
transfer between PCs
4System expected to pay for
itself in under 12 months