Stefan Husanu, founder of the London-based company Pith & Stem, faced a significant challenge. Their flagship product — eco-friendly, wall-mounted folding tables called DropTop — had gained enormous popularity. To meet demand while maintaining absolute precision and sustainability, they needed to fundamentally automate and streamline their production processes.
Project goal: Complete integration of the Autodesk Fusion 360 CAD/CAM ecosystem directly into the workshop, and tuning post-processors for three completely different types of CNC machines.
Solving a Heterogeneous Machine Fleet
The biggest technical challenge was ensuring that a single Fusion 360 model could be correctly machined on three different machines depending on the workshop’s current capacity:
- 3-axis Pegasus: Syntec control system — robust milling of main panels.
- SCM Author M100f: Machine equipped with a C-axis aggregate for specific angular operations.
- SCM Startech CN V: Vertical CNC centre with horizontal and vertical drilling units for fast hardware preparation.
Integration Results
Through custom development and fine-tuning of JavaScript post-processors (.cps), the team eliminated the human factor and the need for manual programming at machine terminals. Production data now flows directly from the cloud to the controllers, reducing setup time by more than 65% and minimising scrap.