EdgeCAM helps keep Triple Eight racing on the right track

14 December 2006 – In the super-competitive world of motor sport, producing quality car parts on demand can mean the difference between losing or winning a race.

Nowhere is this more true than in the cut-and-thrust of the Australian V8 Supercar series where Triple Eight Race Engineering Australia (888) has been the driving force behind this year’s historic victory for Ford in the Bathurst 1000 motor race.

In 2004, 888 installed EdgeCAM Solid Machinist from Pathtrace as a key element in the expansion and improvement of its in-house machine shop. The team had previously outsourced its machining jobs and was looking to increase productivity in order to be able to respond faster to requirements for components for its Ford Falcon race cars.

“We decided to offset the cost by using it to produce affordable race parts for other Ford teams,” explains commercial manager Peter Jamieson. “To do this, we needed to increase productivity both in the generation of machine tool programmes and in the efficiency of manufacture. There is another very good reason for having the best possible design and production facilities in-house: 888 just cannot afford the risk of failing to meet critical deadlines, which is more likely when the work is
subcontracted out.”