About
Trueform CNC Machining, was incorporated in the summer of
1998. During those early years as a supplier of CNC'd parts,
mould inserts, mould bases and electrodes we also did some
programming in Delphi (Pascal based compiler by Borland) to
further our internal efficiencies. When the occasional
production job came up that required 24/7 processing, and
without the man power to work around the clock, the equipment
would run "lights out". Unfortunately many times after an all
night machining session, production would halt in the middle of
the night for one reason or another. Sometimes it was a power
cut, while other times a cutter broken or the machine got
clogged with metal chips and ran out of coolant. Even a simple
problem of a data transmission error during the machining
process brought everything to a halt. After too many "lost"
hours of production, I designed a system I called a "CNC
Supervisor ®". It was a prototype electronic PCB board I had a
local shop manufacture, tied together with an internet embedded
modem and a serial cable to a PC. This first version of my "CNC
Supervisor ®" sensed the line voltage, coolant levels and CNC
status. As soon as an error condition occurred, it would dial up
my ISP and fire off an SMS-email to my phone. Yes, I did this
back in 1996 before anyone had heard of SMS messaging. (I even
helped ClearNET engineers
debug their network) Years later I partnered up with a couple of
other people to move this concept forward in monitoring
environments and equipment. Over those years I learned a lot
about many industries that could benefit from my technology.
Today's version of the "CNC Supervisor ®" is helping many shops
and labs improve their bottom line by giving them the power to
understand their environment and industrial equipment.
Trueform is also a contributor to both the Art Community,
supporting "thinking out side of the box", and the local food
bank. Recent contributions to the "Local Burning Man" community
were 100 CNC machined gift necklaces.
Thanks to Jason 'Sunshine' Carswell the artist at Wicked Sunshine for the artwork supplied to BurnT community to make this possible.