To examine the fascinating possibilities for the woodworking companies offered by the new techniques based on SolidWorks^® a master thesis was elaborated in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences (FH) Rosenheim, Germany (Prof. Laika and Prof. Engl) and our sales partner MBCAD.

Parts of the results for the construction and production are summarized here.

Essential improvements when using PASCAM Bea are:

PASCAM software is developed due to the specific design and manufacturing requirements of the woodworking trade. In connection with SolidWorks^® it offers the user a level of productivity and efficiency like no other of the examined standard woodworking CAD programs on the market. In comparison between a stand-alone SolidWorks^® installation and the additional use of PASCAM Bea "on top" a more efficient, higher rate of automation can be realized. The results of the master thesis show a time-saver of about 50%. In addition, it has turned out, that by use of PASCAM software the results in the existential economic aspects:

•  quick productivity increase

•  lasting error minimization

•  lasting cost minimization

•  lasting time-to-market reduction

is being improved significantly.

Apart from salient temporal advantages (data for machining strategies can be re-used very safe and easily and has to be defined and entered only once and doesn't have to be converted), substantial improvements become apparent at construction safety, error minimization, of achieving customer presentation and additional manufacturing information such as exploded views or films for assembly instructions etc.