The types of users most likely to benefit from FBM programming strategies fall into a number of categories. Within each category, the advantages users are likely to obtain are also varied.

2-D Fabricators
Manufacturers of electronic enclosures are a good example of shops that do enormous amounts of 2-D machining and little else. A shop may manufacture hundreds of enclosure models that are simple variations of a few basic designs. In this situation, the user can use FBM, enter a few variables if desired, and all the CAM programming is done at the push of a button. The productivity gains are enormous.
Large Job Shops and Captive Machine Shops

 At large shops, many different types of parts may require CAD programming. Less experienced machinists can be productively assigned to tasks most suitable for FBM with very little training required. Next they can be assigned parts with mostly FBM content, but also some additional conventional CAM programming content.

 FBM templates and libraries can also be used to great advantage to standardize the way parts with a significant amount of planar content are machined. This can help improve manufacturing consistency and reduce the tool inventory by setting shop tool standards for similar operations.

  Power Programmers
These are the experienced programmers who work in every type of shop from the very large to the one-man CNC job shops. By eliminating all of the planar programming workload, FBM allows these users to focus on the creative toolpath generation tasks that earn them their keep.

 For production shops, clearing the decks of planar tasks means that the programmer can begin program optimization using conventional CAD sooner. For jobs shops specializing in one-offs and short runs, FBM can automate a significant percentage of a job’s total labor content. This translates into an immediate improvement in per-job profitability.

  Maverick Machinists
Within the past decade, there has developed a whole new market for CAD programming tools among inventors and prototypers within emerging and growth markets like medical and energy product manufacturing. These are typically highly educated users who do their own manufacturing to reduce costs and/or protect their designs. They will learn as much programming as needed to manufacture their specialized products. FBM and template-based programming can substantially limit what they have to learn so they can get on with their primary designing and testing activities.                              

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