Vero Software: PEPS

Vero Software Plc is a company that creates and distributes CAD/CAM/CAE software for aiding the design and manufacturing process in specific sectors of the industry with a knowledge-driven focus on Mold & Die. The specific sectors include the design and manufacture of plastic injection molds, sheet-metal stamping dies, progressive dies, shoe molds, electrode production, multi-axis laser cutting, wire EDM, and others. These widespread product types are, in turn, to be found in a multitude of manufacturing industry sectors such as automotive, electronic, medical, white goods, and aerospace.
Vero Software has offices in Italy, England, Japan, France, Canada, the USA and China. The company now has a user base that numbers more than 20,000 and supplies products to more than 40 countries through its wholly owned subsidiaries and competence centers.

The PEPS suite of software is a Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system based upon an integrated suite of software with facilities for designing geometrical models with its in-built CAD drawing tools or importing models from external CAD systems and CNC part programming. The PEPS system takes a central part in fully integrated CAM installations, but is also ideally placed to provide an affordable solution to the CNC part programming needs of engineering businesses of all sizes.

PEPS software allows machines to produce components economically and can extend the range of work that a user is able to manufacture. The result may be a new lease on life for older machines, making them more productive without involving the owner in expensive replacement or maximizing the output.

The system's key benefit is its unique approach, offering powerful features with extreme simplicity of use. The adoption of a graphical user interface under Windows on a stand-alone or networked PC provides an intuitive method of working. Using an industry standard system in this way greatly reduces training times and ensures you produce NC programs quickly and effectively.

The system is supported by a set of post processors that generates high-quality CNC code for each individual machine tool. The CNC code produced is unmatched by competitive systems for reliability and quality.  Camtek does not believe in the concept of customers having to edit its CNC code. They produce it ready for the machine. PEPS software offers considerable scope for users to reduce scrap, improve quality, increase material utilization, reduce prove-out time and substantially enhance the productivity.

PEPS has a great number of CAD system integrators that allow the direct import of CAD drawings in their native form or as industry standards, such as IGES, STEP,  and DXF. Every system comes standard with interfaces for DXF, AutoCAD-Inventor, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, IronCad and Solid IGES.  Optional CATIA V4, CATIA V5, Unigraphics, Pro/Engineer, VDA, and STEP integrators are available.

PEPS is available for metal-cutting operations such as:

• Wire EDM
• Multi-axis laser
• Milling
• Turning