“It’s our lifeblood, full stop.” He says a small kitchen could comprise an average of up to 200 components, taking around a dozen sheets of raw material. With kitchens it’s the sink door, and a cupboard door in bedrooms, so ALPHACAM plays a part in every kitchen and bedroom we produce.”īut it’s CABINET VISION that he regards as being essential for the company’s specific casework requirements. “All our kitchens and bedrooms have a door with the company name and logo engraved on it. Door cutlists are also produced in CABINET VISION, telling the operator what parts to cut, how many pieces, and the length.ĪLPHACAM is also used for engraving. “We can literally make units of all shapes, heights, widths and depths…and any colour,” says Mick Cotter.Īll their carcases, drawer boxes and solid surface Staron worktops are produced with either CABINET VISION or APHACAM – ALPHACAM mainly for one-off solid wood products that don’t go through a nest and it machines the drawer boxes from cutlists created in CABINET VISION. Being at the high-end of the market they specialise in moisture-resistant MDF with either a laminate surface on to a carcase – and all exposed décor would be painted, or sprayed MDF – or matching wood veneer on MDF.Įverything is bespoke – they don’t have a catalogue of any sort. The company manufacture everything themselves carcases, doors, drawer boxes and worktops, apart from granite.
We’d have struggled to keep the company afloat during the global financial crisis that began in 2008 if we’d still been using the old time-consuming processes.” It’s completely changed the way we operate. But if I was making that decision today, and knowing what I know now, we’d invest in CABINET VISION immediately. “At the time that was our first experience of CAD/CAM, and although we knew about CABINET VISION I wanted to take it one step at a time. We may need to change the orientation to match the two boards.”Ĭurrently they perform that task using ALPHACAM, which came already installed on their pre-owned original CNC machine 13 years ago. “The only time we need to change the orientation of an individual part on the nest is when we’re using a real wood veneer and the component we’re making is longer than the sheet. With thousands of components required for a large kitchen, he describes CABINET VISION’s nesting feature as “all-important in taking away the thought process in the factory” as the machine simply produces every part on the sheet, accurately drilling every hole and routing every groove, meaning it is almost a finished unit coming off the CNC. Now I can design that same unit in CABINET VISION literally in two minutes.” “Before we had CABINET VISION that would take one person a couple of days to mark everything out and drill the holes. “It enables us to adapt and change every unit in a matter of seconds, to create something bespoke that we’ve never made before.”įor example, he can readily design a unit that will go around a vent, or a kitchen boiler with a considerable amount of associated pipework.
Having recently celebrated their tenth anniversary of using CABINET VISION, he says the business couldn’t offer “anything like” the service they do, if they didn’t have the software. Offering a high end bespoke service and products, the company deals mainly with end-user customers within a few miles of their native Carlisle. Those are the words of Mick Cotter, Director of Cumbria Kitchen and Bedroom Furniture. “If you’ve got both CABINET VISION and ALPHACAM, there’s absolutely nothing you can’t make.”
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