Reason #2 - TOP 10 Reasons - WHY KIPWARE®? - Real World Cycletime Estimating

#2 In our Series of the TOP 10 Reasons ... WHY KIPWARE® is :
Real World Cycletime Estimating

No matter what you use or how you perform your cost estimating ... the basics of a good and profitable cost estimate begins with an accurate machining cycletime estimate. Looking at a part and saying "That should take us about 2 mins. to machine" ... is not cycletime estimating ... it's guesstimating ... and it WILL be FATAL !!

That's why we choose REAL WORLD CYCLETIME ESTIMATING as our #2 Reason Why Kipware® SAVES YOU MONEY!!

KipwareCYC® was born from the experiences of creating machine justifications while working as an Applications Engineer for a major Japanese machine tool builder. Companies came to us and wanted to know the age old question ... How long is it going to take to machine our parts on your machine? Based on the cycletime estimates I created ... they would either purchase the machine or walk away. If they purchased the machine ... life only got tougher. Now we had to make that cycletime stick ... in the real world. Just like shops do in the real world every day. KipwareCYC® was enhanced and further developed while working as a Manufacturing Engineer in a high production, large volume machine shop ... I had to insure that the machining time estimated was realistic and accurate. Those Real World experiences are built into KipwareCYC® ... and it has been more than proven-in-the-trenches over the years.

As we wind down our TOP 10 Reasons - Why Kipware®? ... we are really keying on our TOP software products that we have designed and developed ... based on over 25+ years in-the-trenches ... that produce the biggest cost advantages for our clients. All of our products have their niche ... and reasons why they are so effective in the Real World ... but KipwareCYC® stands out as one of the TOP.

Want to learn more ... we invite you to visit www.KentechInc.com or www.MachineShopSoftware.com and explore KipwareCYC® in more detail.

Better yet ... why not arrange for a personal online demonstration and let us show you how we can back up our claims ... click here to set one up.

Kenney Skonieczny - President
Kentech Inc.

Real World Machining Cycletime Estimating & Why It Matters

The phrase ... the guess ... "That should take us about 2 minutes to machine." ... is costing you  money ... plain and simple.

I would say that most of our clients who request a Webex demonstration of our KipwareCYC® software answer the question "So how do you estimate your cycletime currently?" in a similar fashion. Inevitably most pass it on to the machinist on the floor or the production manager or the manufacturing engineer ... and they provide the machining time estimate. And when we push a little harder ... it turns out that most usually use the scientific form of GUESSTIMATING to arrive at their times based on their 30+ years or so of machining.

The fact of the matter is that even with all that machining background ... their cycletime estimate is still a guesstimate ... and cost estimates produced from that will be incorrect. No matter what you are using for cost estimating ... if the cycletime estimate is incorrect it could lead to winning work ... but work that just loses money.

The other side of the coin is the "feature recognition" software that claim they can produce a cycletime estimate based on a solid model. So now we go from a free guess to a very high priced software application ... but the result is probably the same ... inaccurate times. Why? That high priced app probably can figure a machining cycletime estimate based on that 3D model ... but the key is will the machining process it determines be the same process that will take place on your shop floor? Will the speeds and feeds it calculates be the same speeds and feeds that will be produced on your shop floor? Probably not ... and that means the time it calculated is no better than a guesstimate.

The key to accurate cycletime estimating is simple ... make certain that the machine specs, cutting process and parameters used accurately reflect what will happen on your shop floor. Period.

Our KipwareCYC® is real world cycletime estimating software that was developed in the real world over years of providing time estimates for machine justification and time estimates for high volume production. KipwareCYC® will provide you with consistency ... and most important accuracy ... in your cycletime estimating process. The real world design and features of KipwareCYC® will insure that machine specs and cutting parameters utilized in the estimate will accurately reflect what happens on your shop floor. In fact ... the design insures that the more you use KipwareCYC® ... the more accurate it becomes !!!

Want to learn more ... we invite you to visit www.KentechInc.com or www.MachineShopSoftware.com and explore KipwareCYC® in more detail.

Better yet ... why not arrange for a personal online demonstration and let us show you how we can back up our claims ... click here to set one up.

Kenney Skonieczny - President
Kentech Inc.