Kipware® Is Created By The Real World
If you follow this blog ... you'll know my name is Kenney Skonieczny and I am the President and principal buck-stopper at Kentech Inc.. Along with being the go-to guy ... all software design and development goes through me or is done by me. In this blog post that begins my outline of the TOP 10 REASONS ... WHY KIPWARE®? ( the software products we developed ) ... I would like to present a little background of HOW Kipware came to be and WHY we feel the Kipware® titles are top machine shop software applications.
I believe that an understanding of the design and development background of our software will clearly demonstrate why we call Kipware® ... Real World Machine Shop Software.
My life in the machine shop and in machine shop software development started on the shop floor. Infancy was as a Class "A" machinist learning and expanding real chipmaking knowledge and experiences operating everything from standard lathes and Bridgeports to manual vertical and horizontal millers ... planers ... OD / ID grinders ... cylindrical grinders ... gear hobbers ... open side planers .... manual boring mills ... and so much more. In addition ... the lost art of way scraping was learnt and perfected along with machine design and repair. Along the way I combined that with some machine design and engineering training as well.
Next phase was as an Applications and Service Engineer for a major Japanese machine tool builder ... where the knowledge of CNC equipment ... both repair and operation ... was learnt and expanded. That knowledge came in the form of machine installation and repair ... turn key set-ups ... programming training ... applications ... and much more. Living and touching the latest and greatest CNC equipment gave me an unmatched knowledge of CNC equipment ... and gave me an unmatched opportunity to learn CNC and combine my real world chip making experience as a machinist with CNC.
Moving on in life included stints in CNC programming and shop floor management as well as a Manufacturing Engineer in a high volume, high production environment. These enhanced real world experiences also exposed the real world gaps in available software applications ... and sparked the ideas for solutions to address and fill those gaps.
Expensive MRP and ERP software and pretty-picture, 3D CAD/CAM applications certainly have their place ... but my shop floor experience also showed that complex and expensive applications are not always the correct solutions. the Kipware® titles were developed to directly address the real world problems I encountered every day on the real world shop floor.
An example ... sure CAD/CAM is a great tool .... but for the 95% of programming we did on the shop floor CAD/CAM was overkill ... and too complex. This complexity eliminated good chipmakers ... who could be good, simple job CNC programmers ... from the programming process. Having to go to the "CAD/CAM guy" led to tons of inefficiencies ... and bottlenecks. Kipware® conversational is designed to give those good chipmakers the tools to help them create those simpler, everyday CNC programs ... the program created on 95% of real world shop floors everyday ... without having to rely on the expensive and backed-up "CAD/CAM guy". Kipware® conversational is not a simple, underdeveloped "G code wizard" designed for "hobby" machinists ... although it still has a place in that environment ... but a full blown, professional, shop floor programming application that includes conversational programming, conversational CAD/CAM, toolpath plotting, professional G code editors and shop floor tools and formulas machinists are always looking for.
This little "rant" about Kipware® conversational is a microcosm of our development strategy. Real World tools to solve Real World issues.
So that is our Reason #10 for WHY KIPWARE®? .... because we saw the real world problems and developed the real world solutions.
We invite you to explore all our Real World software titles at www.KentechInc.com ... and follow along with this blog and explore the other TOP 10 REASONS ... WHY KIPWARE®?
Kenney Skonieczny - President
Kentech Inc.
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