Cimatron
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Cimatron Group is one of the largest CAD/CAM
software developers worldwide, offering manufacturing, toolmaking and CNC programming solutions. Founded in 1982, Cimatron is listed on the Nasdaq
and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
under the symbol CIMT. The company's major shareholders are DBSI and Rimon Ben Shaul.
Headquartered in Tel Aviv
, Israel, the company has subsidiaries in the USA, Germany
, Italy
, China
, South Korea
, and India
, as well as resellers in over 40 countries. Its signature software products - CimatronE and GibbsCAM - are used in over 40,000 installations worldwide. Its clients are largely from the automotive, aerospace, consumer electronics, toys, medical, optics and telecom industries.
In January 2008, Cimatron merged with US CNC machining software company Gibbs and Associates. Former Gibbs head Bill Gibbs assumed the position of Cimatron President North America and Vice Chairman of Cimatron Ltd. and agreed to remain with the company for at least five years.
In 2010, Cimatron was listed by PLM consulting firm CIMdata as one of the leading suppliers of CAM software, based on CAM software and services direct revenue received. CIMdata also predicted that Cimatron would be one of the five most rapidly growing CAM software companies in 2011.
In the 4th quarter of 2010, Cimatron reported its highest ever quarterly revenue of $11 million and operating profit of $1.7 million.
In 2011, the company was listed as one of Israel's fastest growing technology companies in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards' list.
specializes in 2- through 5-axis milling, turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire-EDM. It also provides integrated manufacturing modeling, including 2D, 2.5D, 3D wireframe, surface and solid modeling.
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software developers worldwide, offering manufacturing, toolmaking and CNC programming solutions. Founded in 1982, Cimatron is listed on the Nasdaq
NASDAQ
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and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
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under the symbol CIMT. The company's major shareholders are DBSI and Rimon Ben Shaul.
Headquartered in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
, Israel, the company has subsidiaries in the USA, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Italy
Italy
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, China
China
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, South Korea
South Korea
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, and India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, as well as resellers in over 40 countries. Its signature software products - CimatronE and GibbsCAM - are used in over 40,000 installations worldwide. Its clients are largely from the automotive, aerospace, consumer electronics, toys, medical, optics and telecom industries.
In January 2008, Cimatron merged with US CNC machining software company Gibbs and Associates. Former Gibbs head Bill Gibbs assumed the position of Cimatron President North America and Vice Chairman of Cimatron Ltd. and agreed to remain with the company for at least five years.
In 2010, Cimatron was listed by PLM consulting firm CIMdata as one of the leading suppliers of CAM software, based on CAM software and services direct revenue received. CIMdata also predicted that Cimatron would be one of the five most rapidly growing CAM software companies in 2011.
In the 4th quarter of 2010, Cimatron reported its highest ever quarterly revenue of $11 million and operating profit of $1.7 million.
In 2011, the company was listed as one of Israel's fastest growing technology companies in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards' list.
CimatronE
CimatronE is an integrated CAD/CAM solution for both toolmakers and manufacturers of discrete parts, providing associativity across the manufacturing process from quoting, through design and delivery. The solution's products include: Mold Design, Electrode Design, Die Design, 2.5 to 5-Axis NC Programming and 5-Axis Discrete part production. In 2010 the CimatronE SuperBox was launched, a combined hardware-software device for the offloading and acceleration of toolpath calculations in NC programming.GibbsCAM
GibbsCAMGibbsCAM
GibbsCAM is a computer-aided manufacturing program developed by Gibbs and Associates , a division of Cimatron Group. GibbsCAM specializes in providing a powerful range of CNC programming functionality. The software is intended to be familiar to machine shop personnel...
specializes in 2- through 5-axis milling, turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire-EDM. It also provides integrated manufacturing modeling, including 2D, 2.5D, 3D wireframe, surface and solid modeling.