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Nesting for the Application (SN)

ASCO-SN nests programmed parts at very high speed, and always meets the requirements. Whenever there are orders related to the parts which currently have to be manufactured and therefore nested together, you can simply select these orders through criteria such as material, due date, machine etc. The orders selected in this way form a (production) JOB. This is shown to you in the ControlPanel. You can process it there immediately or later, optionally as a batch job or under user control.

ASCO supports you in your everyday work: at any time the software will indicate the current state of the work at hand. Here the "What's Up" function helps you make the right decisions. With sorting according to priority, you see for which machines and materials there are orders and thus potential nesting jobs, and then select the desired job(s) per mouse-click.

ASCO-SN knows two different types of part program for nesting:

1. Punched parts with common shared separation edges that are produced without a scrap skeleton. Here in the part program, only the notches deviating from the surrounding rectangle are processed for the outer contour. The processing steps needed for common edges by separation tools or shears are calculated automatically by ASCO-SN when nesting.

2. Normal parts, whose outer contour is punched, lasered or processed with mixed technologies. These parts are manufactured in the scrap skeleton. ASCO-SN makes it possible to nest all these parts mixed dynamically together. Each nesting plan can therefore contain parts with and without scrap skeleton, depending on the order situation.

ASCO is an open system. ASCO is fast enough to only have to perform the nesting directly before the actual production. And also fast enough to possibly try a few alternatives. In a specific manner, using criteria you select beforehand. And then optimized for the correct machine.

Like all ASCO software, ASCO-SN is also made of many building blocks. From these individual components, you can put together a system to suit your particular needs.

The standard solution usually comprises the following functions:

• Entering and managing orders and material
• The "What's Up?" function: creating and tracking production jobs
• Automatic nesting
• Nesting interactively and changing the technology
• Tool-change and tool-path optimization
• Subroutine technique
• Generating NC data (and, if applicable, transferring them to the machine)
• NC simulation
• Generating work documents (and, if applicable, printing them out)

In contrast to the continuous processes (ASCO-BR), the function for creating production jobs in ASCO-SN has itself been given more subfunctions which also run autonomously. For example, in the case of machines with limited magazine slot capacity, an alignment is automatically performed, so that a job can be produced with a single setting-up of the tools - if you so wish. Or, in the case of machines with automatic removal but limited storage place, the job is compiled in such as way that there is space for all parts belonging to the job (see "Special Requirements"). (( "spezielle Anforderungen" - wo sind sie aufgeführt? ))

A number of additional functions support special requirements, which can partially depend on the technology used (machine) or also on the organization of your production planning:

• Importing and reporting back orders and material
• Optimum batch-size oriented nesting (production of complete sets)
• Automatic selection of the most suitable sheet formats
• Automatic repositioning of oversized parts
• Automatic assignment of stacking place
• Technology-related modification of nesting plans
• Determination of the number of strokes per tool, and statistics