Allergan Chooses to Implement CAMWorks Software

Allergan Inc., a multi-specialty health care company focused on providing and commercializing pharmaceutical, biological and medical devices has acquired two seats of CAMWorks for its Goleta, CA manufacturing operations. The acquisition represents the company’s first purchase from Geometric, a leader in developing advanced manufacturing software..

Allergan is a global, health care company pursuing therapeutic advances to enhance patient lives. Today, the company is a multi-billion dollar, global, multi-specialty health care company with leading portfolios in eye care, neurosciences, medical dermatology, medical aesthetics, obesity intervention and urologics.

CAMWorks features recognition performance and improvements; the latest version of VoluMill with the new non-concentric milling technology; significant time reduction while saving files with large number of tool path moves and the ability to add new tools into the TechDB from within CAMWorks. Further, CAMWorks provides significant new capabilities including enhanced automation, improved knowledge-based machining information, smarter tool paths, and more. Feature Recognition, which is used to automatically identify areas to be machined, has been upgraded to find more features, while decreasing computation times.

CAMWorks is the first Gold Partner CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) solution designed exclusively to operate in SolidWorks. CAMWorks runs within SolidWorks, or as part of a cost-effective CAD/CAM package that includes CAMWorks Solids, an integrated solid modeler. Geometric is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services and Digital Technology solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.