Hi All,

I was wondering how many of you that have it, use the CAS on your machines?

There was a lot of hype around it while we were looking at the multus (which we did eventually buy). Our tooling suppliers told us that they had models of all their tools, so it would be very simple to load these into the machine.
We've had the Multus now for nearly a month (and tooling) but have not received said files, which is annoying.
I personally feel that CAS is a gimmick, and this was reinforced when one of the Okuma reps mentioned while installing, that it would not stop the turret from a crash while positioning thru it's 180 deg range.

Hearing this, I feel the time spent building up the chuck jaws, part, and tooling, could be left out of my set-up times. I'm not perfect at all. I make mistakes in my programmes all the time, but I find them while proving out the job, and haven't crashed a machine in over ten years.

So..., do you guys use it?
Will it stop the turret before hitting anything?
Will I sleep better knowing the afternoon shift can't hurt it, if left to finish a set-up?

Thanks for listening.
Dave.
ps. here's a link to a video of our first job done on the Multus!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v--O8DTcTo"]YouTube - Multus Screw[/ame]