Trek Bicycle Corporation, founded in 1976 and based in Wisconsin, is a world-leading manufacturer of bikes. As a company that focuses as heavily on its carbon footprint as it does its manufacturing quality, they were looking for ways to streamline their nesting for their Gerber knife cutters. Ben Fisher, Product Manufacturing Engineer said; “Prior to purchasing JETCAM, static nests were being generated manually. These static nests could take several hours to create and were often inefficient depending on the creator and the part shape. We were looking for an opportunity to decrease our nesting time, maximize our material yield, and possibly generate dynamic nests for daily production. Dynamic nesting could not have been done effectively with our current method of manual nest building”
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