Geotech gets substantial time saving with NX CAM

Engineering firm Geotech provides companies worldwide with innovative geotechnical field investigation equipment, such as drill rigs, CPT, and PVT-meters. Starting in 1970, their products are developed, designed, and manufactured in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Jorge Gonzalez is CNC programmer, as well as a milling and welding machine operator at Geotech. As responsible for planning the work on the milling machines, he also works on developing new methods for processing the details Geotech manufactures in milling machines and welds.

With assistance from Nextage, Geotech’s supplier of NX CAM from Siemens Digital Industries, new processes, and solutions have been developed which have led to shortened lead times and increased precision in the machines and delivery.

“Nextage helped me increase productivity through smart processes that totally eliminates or essentially cuts time on tasks that used to be very time consuming”, says Jorge Gonzalez.

During the spring 2019 Geotech participated in training with Nextage where the focus was to increase efficiency in the CAM processes using NX CAM. The result is streamlined or automated recurring tasks and higher re-use of information about how components should be placed in the machine and what tools should be used. In addition, the administrative handling has decreased drastically with better use of NX CAM.

“Today I use NX CAM on all components, old and new. It gives a substantial time saving on every component. The time saving on each component I would say varies depending on its complexity”, says Jorge Gonzalez.

NX CAM facilitates the work of programming the milling machines. Especially when it comes to complex curved details.

“NX CAM makes it easier to calculate advanced geometries and program the machine to perform them. This is welcome support, especially when time is limited, which it sometimes is, says Jorge Gonzalez.

Geotech invests in the future and continuously updates their strategies for sustainability, environment, delivery time, and precision. These are crucial challenges to maintain control over for Geotech that has the entire world as their market. NX CAM is a part of the solution.

“Earlier we had limitations in programming possibilities and hence with running the machines when it came to performing advanced details. With NX CAM we see that we can invest in more high-end machines and, instead of sending off components to other workshops, we can manufacture them inhouse”, says Jorge Gonzalez.

Jorge Gonzalez has been working for Geotech for seven years and thrives with the job which he finds very developing.

“It’s a challenging job. To be creative, self-reliant, able to juggle multiple tasks, and perform your best every day, is important. However, I don’t feel any negative stress. You simply do your best when you love what you work with, don’t you?”, says Jorge Gonzalez.