#edgecam #cam #manufacturing #engineering #anniversary CAM company Edgecam, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, has its roots back in the DOS-based system developed by the company’s founder at Surrey University. Pathtrace, which was formed in 1983, spawned the brands PMS (Pathtrace Manufacturing System) and PAMS (Pathtrace Advanced Manufacturing System) before becoming Edgecam in 1995.
General manager Raf Lobato says: “The first release of Edgecam took a DOS-based textual menu-driven system into a Windows look and feel with graphical icons replacing text-type menus. The original Pathtrace had been ‘leading edge’ from its inception. In those days, most CAM software ran on main-frame systems, but when the first generation of PCs came along, the company embraced these small machines, believing — quite rightly — that they were the future. PMS was developed for the popular Commodore Pat. In 1988, Pathtrace developed PAMS for the emerging IBM PC market.”
Edgecam, which has over 100 direct employees, is currently used in 26 countries and has 52 resellers around the world. The brand became part of the Planit Group in 2006 and was acquired by Vero Software in 2011.