The company’s end to end CAD/CAM solution for robotics allowed manufacturers to seamlessly interact with robots through a new intuitive interface; proving all such notions wrong.

Born Behind Closed Doors

While robot manufacturers have developed stiffer and more precise robots optimized for machine tooling applications, industry adoption is slowed by the lack of adequate programming tools for complex trajectory programming. Existing methods are too complex, time consuming and labor intensive to be practical in todays high mix, low volume production environment. Robotmaster integrates into the CAD/CAM based CNC programming environment, and programming the robot trajectory is done graphically to produce error-free 6+ axis robot tool paths in hours instead of the days required by conventional methods thus helping clients save time and money.

“The real technological leap was designing a product that was easy and intuitive for a novice user as well as offering all the power that an expert programmer expects. Moreover intricate analysis was required to provide instant visual feedback and to optimize the efficiency of our kinematic calculations; as well as developing a state-of-the-art collision checking library that is faster than the fastest available commercial libraries,” says Bakmazjian. A key factor to JabezTechnologies’ ability to innovate was building a team that is knowledgeable in both CAD/CAM software development and robotics. The company’s research and development team is led by Dr. Waseem Khan, Director of Technology. “Dr. Khan’s leadership approach, through nurturing a great team culture, has consistently produced out-of-the-box thinking and innovative results,” affirms Bakmazjian.

Enhancing Client Performances

“There is a trend in companies to scrutinize large capital investment for machines and to explore cheaper and more flexible manufacturing solutions. A $600,000 worth CNC machine that may be capitalized for over 10 years, will pose many uncertainties due to constant shift of technology trends. Hence, customers are looking for shortterm investments to get a quicker return on investment and robots are in high consideration, being more flexible in terms of technology,” adds Bakmazjian.

Jabez Technologies has helped many companies, including those in the construction and fabrication sector, who were looking to adopt robots for various applications like cutting and welding; and also automotive companies whose issues pertained to trimming thermoformed products, laser cutting and water jet cutting. The company has facilitated robotization to Aerospace companies like Boeing, EADS (Airbus) and Embraer, to help manufacture aircraft skins and perform other tasks like trimming, drilling and riveting. Jabez also has expertise in aircraft engine components, which needs deburring, sanding, grinding, polishing and to carry out thermal projection using robots.

To highlight a case study, a leading aircraft manufacturer was looking to start a new project that involved manufacturing parts for a new series of planes.