AI plug-in to accelerate CAM programming for Indian manufacturers

By Staff Report March 12, 2025 12:35 pm IST

CloudNC is making CAM Assist, an AI solution for CNC machine programming, available to Indian manufacturers through a new partnership with Vayam Global, a leading software distributor.

CloudNC, a manufacturing technology company, is making CAM Assist, the world’s first AI-driven solution for CNC machine programming, available to Mastercam users in India through a strategic partnership with Vayam Global.

Vayam Global – a manufacturing software company in India and a nationwide distributor for Mastercam, the popular CAD CAM software – will sell CAM Assist to over 15,000 Mastercam users, both through direct sales and its network of software resellers.

The partnership brings the benefits of CAM Assist within immediate reach of every Mastercam user in India. CAM Assist automatically generates professional machining strategies with AI in seconds – enabling greater productivity and consistency – while enabling programmers to create toolpaths for more complex parts in different CAM packages, upskilling existing workers. 

Jason Bowes, COO of CloudNC, said: “India is a factory that the world relies on as a key supplier of precision-machined components for every industry and sector. There is immense potential for our software to make that factory even more efficient and productive, as CAM Assist is now available to accelerate Indian machinists for creating components and training them to expert-level with AI.”

Vineet Seth, Managing Director at Mastercam India, said: “CAM Assist has huge potential to change the Indian CAD CAM market forever by solving one of its most difficult problems – how to upskill the existing workforce. By utilising AI, more programmers will now be able to make complex 3+2 axis components in Mastercam, learning more effective strategies as they do so – enabling their employers to win more customers and land bigger contracts.”

CAM Assist uses advanced computer science techniques and AI to generate intuitive machining strategies in minutes or seconds, depending on complexity, which could take CNC machine programmers hours or even days to create manually.  

As a result, the amount of time it takes to program a CNC machine to make a component – a bottleneck in many factories – is greatly reduced compared to the previous manual programming process, as is the time spent to estimate how much a new component will cost to program.  

In addition, beginner programmers can use CAM Assist to operate at a more advanced level – for example, by creating toolpaths for more complex components or by using unfamiliar CAM software platforms. Those gains enable manufacturers using CAM Assist to raise productivity from their existing workforce while shortening lead times and enabling greater consistency when generating toolpath strategies.  

CAM Assist is available for Mastercam in India through Vayam Global at https://www.vayamglobal.com/products/. 

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