IRBCAM is a software tool which automatically converts toolpaths from CAM software (such as SurfCAM, AlphaCAM, VisualMill, PowerMill, etc) into a format which can be executed on industrial robots (ABB, Kuka, Comau, Motoman and Fanuc). Typical applications for the software are milling in foam, wood, composites, ceramics and light metals (aluminium). The solution can also be used for waterjet, plasma, laser cutting as well as glueing and painting.
The typical accuracy of an industrial robot is 0.3-0.5mm which means that a robotic milling solution is well suited to applications requiring a large workspace, relatively low mechanical stiffness and relatively low accuracy. The machining of moulds and plugs for marine applications in soft materials such as foam and wood is an example of an application where the accuracy and stiffness of an industrial robot is sufficient. The workspace of an industrial robot can be further extended by placing the robot on a linear track. By having two robots each on a linear track and placed on each side of a work object, very large objects can be machined. Typical dimensions which are possible are 20m x 4m x 4m. The IRBCAM software automatically generatates the motion pattern for the linear tracks in addition to the 6th degree of freedom of the robot which is not specified in the toolpath from the CAM files.
IRBCAM can also automatically generate the toolpath for coordinated motions of an industrial robot and a rotary or a linear table. By using a rotary table, a large object can be machined from all sides in one setup and it eliminates the need for an operator to move or rotate the object manually.
The IRBCAM software is developed by the company Mechatronic Engineering Ltd in Norway.
The typical accuracy of an industrial robot is 0.3-0.5mm which means that a robotic milling solution is well suited to applications requiring a large workspace, relatively low mechanical stiffness and relatively low accuracy. The machining of moulds and plugs for marine applications in soft materials such as foam and wood is an example of an application where the accuracy and stiffness of an industrial robot is sufficient. The workspace of an industrial robot can be further extended by placing the robot on a linear track. By having two robots each on a linear track and placed on each side of a work object, very large objects can be machined. Typical dimensions which are possible are 20m x 4m x 4m. The IRBCAM software automatically generatates the motion pattern for the linear tracks in addition to the 6th degree of freedom of the robot which is not specified in the toolpath from the CAM files.
IRBCAM can also automatically generate the toolpath for coordinated motions of an industrial robot and a rotary or a linear table. By using a rotary table, a large object can be machined from all sides in one setup and it eliminates the need for an operator to move or rotate the object manually.
The IRBCAM software is developed by the company Mechatronic Engineering Ltd in Norway.
Mohamed Boudjenane is a Moroccan-born journalist and social democratic politician in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. He served in the Bob Rae NDP government as a staffer to cabinet minister Gilles Pouliot until 1995. He joined the franco-Ontario television station TFO in 1995, and served as a reporter there for ten years. He switched careers again, in 2005 and served as the Executive Director of the Canadian Arab Federation until 2009. Over the years he has been part of many human-rights organizations and boards. Since 2010, he is a civil servant in the Ontario provincial government.
Career
Born in Morocco, Boudjenane came to Canada at the age of 20 to study international economics and communications at Université Laval. During this time, he worked at Quebec City's City Hall, and was a reporter and board director for the local campus radio station, CKRL-FM. In 1989, Boudjenane moved to Ontario to become a political advisor and then executive assistant to the Minister of Transportation and Francophone Affairs, where he spent four years working on a broad set of policy issues for the provincial government.
In 1995, Boudjenane joined the provincial broadcaster TFO as bureau chief for the Ontario Legislative Assembly. For the next ten years he covered Ontario politics for Ontario’s leading Francophone public affairs program, Panorama. He was also a regular panelist discussing provincial political affairs for CBLA's Metro Morning, and he contributed pieces to CBC Radio’s Dispatches, as well as the Moroccan segment of an award-winning documentary on terrorist networks that was co-produced internationally by CBC, the New York Times, and PBS.
Boudjenane's work in the area of anti-racism, civil liberties and human rights has included memberships on the Toronto Chief of Police’s Advisory Council and the executive of the National Antiracism Canadian Coalition. He has made public presentations to the Arar public inquiry, and to federal parliamentary committees examining Bill c36, the anti-terrorism legislation. He continues to be invited by international organizations, such as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), to speak on issues related to Islamophobia and hate-crimes.
Boudjenane also served as vice-president of both the l’Association Canadienne Francaise de l’Ontario (ACFO) and the Canadian Media Guild at TV Ontario. He has made presentations to the Heritage Committee on the future of public television.
Candidate for NDP Nomination in Parkdale—High Park
In 2006, Boudjenane sought the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) nomination to run in the 14th of September Parkdale—High Park by-election to replace outgoing Ontario Liberal Party Member of Provincial Parliament(MPP) Gerard Kennedy. Kennedy, a former Minister of Education in the Ontario Liberal government headed by Premier Dalton McGuinty, resigned both his cabinet post and his seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to seek the Liberal Party of Canada leadership, necessitating the by-election. and many members of the riding's executive. The nomination meeting took place in the middle of a heat wave on the evening of 17 July 2006, in the Parkdale Collegiate Institute auditorium. The sweltering auditorium was filled with over 300 people, most of them delegates. DiNovo defeated Boudjenane and went on to defeated Liberal Sylvia Watson in the 14 September 2006 by-election.
Candidate for NDP in Etobicoke North
On July 9, 2007, Boudjenane was acclaimed as the NDP's provincial candidate in Etobicoke North. He ran against Liberal party MPP Shafiq Qaadri and Mohamed Kassim of the Progressive Conservative party.
Israel-Palestine Conflict
In his role as Executive Director of the Canadian Arab Federation, Boudjenane voiced the organization's concern over Canada's policy changes that began favouring one side over the other in the Israel-Palestine Conflict. He pointed out, in 2007, that the recent pro-Israel stance has cost Canada its credibility as an 'honest-broker' in related peace talks.
Career
Born in Morocco, Boudjenane came to Canada at the age of 20 to study international economics and communications at Université Laval. During this time, he worked at Quebec City's City Hall, and was a reporter and board director for the local campus radio station, CKRL-FM. In 1989, Boudjenane moved to Ontario to become a political advisor and then executive assistant to the Minister of Transportation and Francophone Affairs, where he spent four years working on a broad set of policy issues for the provincial government.
In 1995, Boudjenane joined the provincial broadcaster TFO as bureau chief for the Ontario Legislative Assembly. For the next ten years he covered Ontario politics for Ontario’s leading Francophone public affairs program, Panorama. He was also a regular panelist discussing provincial political affairs for CBLA's Metro Morning, and he contributed pieces to CBC Radio’s Dispatches, as well as the Moroccan segment of an award-winning documentary on terrorist networks that was co-produced internationally by CBC, the New York Times, and PBS.
Boudjenane's work in the area of anti-racism, civil liberties and human rights has included memberships on the Toronto Chief of Police’s Advisory Council and the executive of the National Antiracism Canadian Coalition. He has made public presentations to the Arar public inquiry, and to federal parliamentary committees examining Bill c36, the anti-terrorism legislation. He continues to be invited by international organizations, such as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), to speak on issues related to Islamophobia and hate-crimes.
Boudjenane also served as vice-president of both the l’Association Canadienne Francaise de l’Ontario (ACFO) and the Canadian Media Guild at TV Ontario. He has made presentations to the Heritage Committee on the future of public television.
Candidate for NDP Nomination in Parkdale—High Park
In 2006, Boudjenane sought the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) nomination to run in the 14th of September Parkdale—High Park by-election to replace outgoing Ontario Liberal Party Member of Provincial Parliament(MPP) Gerard Kennedy. Kennedy, a former Minister of Education in the Ontario Liberal government headed by Premier Dalton McGuinty, resigned both his cabinet post and his seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to seek the Liberal Party of Canada leadership, necessitating the by-election. and many members of the riding's executive. The nomination meeting took place in the middle of a heat wave on the evening of 17 July 2006, in the Parkdale Collegiate Institute auditorium. The sweltering auditorium was filled with over 300 people, most of them delegates. DiNovo defeated Boudjenane and went on to defeated Liberal Sylvia Watson in the 14 September 2006 by-election.
Candidate for NDP in Etobicoke North
On July 9, 2007, Boudjenane was acclaimed as the NDP's provincial candidate in Etobicoke North. He ran against Liberal party MPP Shafiq Qaadri and Mohamed Kassim of the Progressive Conservative party.
Israel-Palestine Conflict
In his role as Executive Director of the Canadian Arab Federation, Boudjenane voiced the organization's concern over Canada's policy changes that began favouring one side over the other in the Israel-Palestine Conflict. He pointed out, in 2007, that the recent pro-Israel stance has cost Canada its credibility as an 'honest-broker' in related peace talks.
Diplomat Navigator is a passenger logistics software platform. Diplomat Navigator is owned by Diplomat Ltd in Basingstoke, United Kingdom. Diplomat Ltd was founded in 2002
One of the unique features of the software is that it utilises industry standard GIS shape map data supplied by TeleAtlas and other sources.
This enables the product to be rapidly deployed to any part of the planet with very few limitations.
The software provides an open source web services API that enables 3rd party systems to interrogate and supliment the Geo Coded Database.
It also offers integration to may other third party mapping and tracking applications such as GPSGate.
It also has a cross platform data despatch engine that enables a wide range of to integrate with it
One of the unique features of the software is that it utilises industry standard GIS shape map data supplied by TeleAtlas and other sources.
This enables the product to be rapidly deployed to any part of the planet with very few limitations.
The software provides an open source web services API that enables 3rd party systems to interrogate and supliment the Geo Coded Database.
It also offers integration to may other third party mapping and tracking applications such as GPSGate.
It also has a cross platform data despatch engine that enables a wide range of to integrate with it
MecSoft Corporation is a developer of standalone and integrated CAD/CAM software solutions for the CNC machining industry. MecSoft was founded in December 1997 by a team of programmers from Unigraphics Solutions Inc. with the aim of providing affordable yet powerful CAM software solutions to the manufacturing industry. Their founding and operating principles are based upon the notion that the most important partner is their customer.
Currently located in Irvine, CA, MecSoft offers the following software solutions: VisualMILL, RhinoCAM and VisualMILL-for-SolidWorks. In January 2010 MecSoft opened a European office (Bad Kreuznach, Germany).
Currently located in Irvine, CA, MecSoft offers the following software solutions: VisualMILL, RhinoCAM and VisualMILL-for-SolidWorks. In January 2010 MecSoft opened a European office (Bad Kreuznach, Germany).