FGP Systems Ltd is a precision engineering company offering high-end engineered and manufactured solutions for the aerospace industry and other sectors.
Part of the FGP Group, the innovative firm has been at the forefront of precision engineering for over 45 years. Its wide range of clients include Honeywell, Leonardo, UTC Aerospace Systems, Safran, Thales, Martin-Baker, Curtiss-Wright and many more.
As one of the three companies in the FGP Group, the British firm typically produces prismatic components for the aerospace industry – it is here that the company utilises Mastercam CAM software.
Simon Griffiths-Hughes from FGP Systems Ltd says: “If we look back over 20 years ago, we had to stay competitive and to do that back then, the buzzword was 5-axis machining. We knew that was the future, so we decided to buy our first 5-axis machine (a DMG MORI DMU 50 eVolution).
"Our work is five-sided prismatic machining and we needed 5-axis machines to accommodate that. Since then, we have taken on more work like turbines – now we do a lot of turbines in various shapes and sizes.”
Discussing the complexities of machining turbines, Simon continues: “The complexity lies within the programming. A turbine, depending on its complexity has main blades and multiple splitter blades. This requires a lot of programming time and you must have safe and repeatable programming and machining strategies.
"To support what was the new 5-axis investment 20 years ago, we needed a CAM package to support that, and we chose Mastercam. We did our due diligence and went through a couple of CAM providers, but Mastercam were offering the full support we needed for full simultaneous 5-axis machining."
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