A little about our company....

Since 1986, Kentech Inc. has combined a unique blend of metal cutting, CNC, and machine shop experience with computer programming skills to develop an array of software products for the metalworking environment. Using years of experience gained "in the trenches", Kentech Inc. is known for creating REAL WORLD solutions for machine shops and we have the REAL WORLD experience to back it up. In addition to our software products, we offer services that put us in the shop every day, programming, setting up machines and training operators and programmers. We "touch and feel" the newest technology every day and put it in action. That's experience no many other companies can say they use to develop products.

Software Products :

Our manufacturing software and machine shop products include business software for quoting & estimating, machine shop scheduling and quotation tracking. Using our chip making and CNC experience, we created the only ture conversational CNC software for programming that is PC based, our KipwareM® and KipwareT® packages. Realizing that all machines are not created equal we created unique machine shop software like our KipwareXC® and CNC XChange packages that can convert on style and format of CNC program into any user defined syle and format, further aiding in rapid CNC programming, eliminating expensive post processors and enhancing our own conversational CNC software. Our KipwareEDU® CNC training software is used by individuals, technical schools, and corporations around the world.

Having lived and worked "in the trenches", our company philosophy has always been to create useful, powerful, but most importantly "real world" products. We're proud that our customers prosper with the realization of that philosophy every day.

The EXPERIENCE to back it up :

A look at some of the combined REAL WORLD experiences we bring to our Machine Shop Software Products and Manufacturing Services.

Software Engineering

Extensive development in a variety of languages included Basic, C, C++, Visual Basic, HTML.
Development in the PALM OS environment.

Manufacturing Experience

Class "A" Machinist
Combined experience in machining on CNC and manual machinery includes 2-8 axis turning centers, 3-5 axis horizontal and vertical machining centers, vertical and horizontal manual mills, lathes, planes, OD and ID grinders, Bridgeports, surface grinders, planer mills, VTL's....to name a few.
Former Field Service Engineer for Mori Seiki USA
Former Applications Engineer for Mori Seiki USA
Over 17 years of CNC Programming and Operator Training on variety of CNC controls...Fanuc, Yasnac, Mitsubishi, Fadal, Hass, to name a few.
Over 20 years of CNC Programming and Operator Training on a variety of CNC machines .... Mori Seiki, Matsuura, Hitachi, Toyoda, Fadal, Hass ... To name a few.

Engineering Experience

Over 20 years of fixture design and development
Former Senior Manufacturing Engineer in a high production environment.
Experienced in a variety of CAD / CAM systems including SolidWorkds, Surfcam, Autocad, Mastercam and many more
CAD/CAM experience includes 3D surfacing

Our Formal Training

Various college degrees in Engineering
Trained in Japan at the factory Mori Seiki - Received Diploma in CNC Programming / Maintenance Courses in both CNC Lathe and CNC Machining Center Courses
Training in Japan at the factory of Shizuoka - Received Diploma in CNC Programming / Maintenance Courses in CNC Machining Center Courses.
Trained in Japan at the factory of Kuraki - Received Diploma in CNC Programming / Maintenance Courses in CNC Machining Center Courses.