Are You Leaving Machining Capacity on the Table?

Date: May 7, 2026

Time: 15:00 CEST

Duration: 35 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A

Format: Online Webinar (Live)

Language: English

Most CNC machines aren’t running at full capacity, and despite advances in CAM, most manufacturers still rely on conservative parameters, manual tuning, and trial-and-error, leaving significant capacity on the shop floor.

Manually optimizing feeds and speeds for every toolpath, every operation, every setup is both time consuming and impossible to get right. Improving machining capacity also often requires balancing cycle time, tool life, and process stability, while most CAM users still rely on trial-and-error on machine tools.

In this live 45-minute session, we bring together Siemens, AML Sheffield, AMIC, and Productive Machines, to discuss the biggest machining challenges, and how technology can deliver more predictable processes without disrupting the workflows your team already uses:

• Reduce cycle times without compromising stability
• Eliminate chatter and improve surface quality
• Increase machine utilisation and throughput
• Deliver consistent, predictable machining performance

You'll hear directly from manufacturers who have already solved some of the challenges, including how AML Sheffield used optimization to reduce cycle times by 21% and win a reshored aerospace contract.

What you will learn:

• Remove guesswork from machining decisions, while enhancing collaboration between CAM programmers, manufacturing engineers and operators and the machine shop
• A clear understanding of improving part quality while reducing tool wear and chatter vibrations
• A practical path to eliminating trial and error: Automation to optimize feeds and speeds across full toolpaths on complex parts
• Eliminate chatter vibrations on complex parts before machining starts
• Guidance on unlocking hidden capacity, without new machines