Our service to customers is based on the combination of high-performance machining centres associated with innovative and robust machining processes. “It helps us achieve productivity gains of between 20 and 30% compared to just using a conventional CAD/CAM system. It is located near to the Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne – a former French state-owned manufacturing company in Saint-Étienne on an industrial site hosting the Higher Institute of Performance Techniques engineering school.Īccording to Mr Damon, the company moves in the, “hyper-competitive international environment” of high-speed production of automotive parts, which he describes as “the most demanding industry.”Īnd having used NCSimul’s simulation functionality for more than 20 years to perfect its machining programs, he says it enables PCI-SCEMM to guarantee cycle times, lead-times, quality and overall cost for all operations. PCI-SCEMM creates machining solutions for the mass production of conventional powertrain parts such as cylinder heads and gearboxes along with battery trays and e-housings for e-Mobility powertrains. “Since then we’ve continued to improve our methodologies, and thanks to the team at Hexagon, we’re further improving our controllers and virtual machines to keep pace with the evolution of Fanuc and Siemens numerical controls, and physical machines,” he says. Hervé Damon, head of machining process studies at French company PCI-SCEMM says it first invested in NCSimul in the late 1990s.

Simulation software from Hexagon (NCSimul) that reads the post-processed G-code to identify machining toolpaths, literally brought a specialist manufacturer into the 21 st Century, and now helps improve productivity by up to 30%.

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