01
The holder hits the clamp.
Setup 2, deep bearing pocket. On the floor that is a crash or a scrapped part. In simulation it's a red frame and a clamp moved 18 mm.
Live webinar · Demo + Q&A · Thu, Nov 19 · 11:00 AM CT
Find the tooling problemsbefore you cut the part.
On November 19, we take one aluminum gearbox housing from CAD to a cut-ready program, live. You'll watch simulation catch three problems that would have failed first article, see them fixed, and ask your own questions on the line.
Reserve my seatFree · Live Thursday, November 19 · 11:00 AM CT · 60 minutes
5 weeks → 8 days
Median design release to a conforming first article at Halvorsen Precision, 2026. Sample figures.
Watch it work. Bring your questions.
This is a working session, not a slide tour. Tom Lindqvist will have the housing open in Kerfline with the machine, fixture and stock modeled, and he'll run every toolpath in front of you. Here is what breaks, in the order it breaks.
02
The wall moves.
A 0.9 mm wall deflects under the roughing pass, past its ±0.05 mm profile tolerance. We'll make the design change live and re-run the pass.
03
The fixture can't hold the stack.
A ±0.025 mm bore position references a datum the setup-2 fixture never locates on. You'll see the stack, and the re-datumed fixture that holds it.
CAD→
CAM→
DFM review→
first-article
Each one is a lap around the CAD → CAM → DFM review → first-article loop. Here, each one costs minutes.
Sixty minutes, Central time
11:00
Where the five weeks go.
One year of new parts at Halvorsen, every round trip between CAD, CAM, DFM review and first-article inspection counted.
Renata Okafor
11:08
LIVELIVE DEMO · One housing, CAD to cut-ready program.
Three problems caught in simulation, fixed, re-simulated, released.
Tom Lindqvist
11:33
The numbers.
49 parts before, 50 after: loops, first-article pass rate, lead time.
Renata Okafor
11:40
Live Q&A.
Questions sent in with your registration go first. Then the line is open.
Both
Can't make 11:00 CT? Reserve your seat anyway. The recording goes to everyone who registers within 24 hours.
5 weeks → 8 days
Median time from design release to a conforming first article, across 50 new parts at Halvorsen Precision in 2026, against 49 in 2025.
6 loops → 2
Median round trips back to CAD per part, from CAM, DFM review or first-article inspection.
61% → 94%
First articles that passed with zero nonconformances. 19 failed first articles became 3.
Machine time didn't change. CMM time didn't change. The days came out of the waiting and the re-cutting.
Sample figures for an illustrative customer. Halvorsen Precision Components, new part numbers released January to September, 2025 vs. 2026.
Who's on the line
Renata Okafor
VP of Manufacturing Engineering, Halvorsen Precision Components
Renata runs a 22-person manufacturing engineering group that releases new aerospace and industrial parts into a 40-machine CNC shop. In 2025 she started tracking every round trip a new part made between CAD, CAM, DFM review and first-article inspection, and the count is why she moved Halvorsen's part release to simulation-first.
Tom Lindqvist
Principal Applications Engineer, Kerfline
Tom spent eleven years programming 4- and 5-axis mills in aerospace job shops before joining Kerfline, where he now builds machine and fixture models with customers. He runs the live demo, and he will be the one answering your CAM questions on the line.
Worth the hour if you
- release parts to the shop and lose days to DFM review round trips
- program CAM and find out about the fixture at the machine
- own first-article inspection and see the same failures twice
- sign off on CAM seats, tooling or fixture budgets and want to see what simulation catches before you pay for it
Reserve your seat for November 19
First Part, First Time
Catching tooling and manufacturability problems in simulation, before the cut. A live demo and Q&A.
Thursday, November 19, 2026 · 11:00 AM Central (CT) · 12:00 PM ET · 9:00 AM PT · 17:00 UTC