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News Release from: Frech | Subject: DAW 80E zinc diecasting machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2004
Try out existing jobs on all-electric
diecaster
Hydraulics replaced pneumatics in high pressure diecasting machines, but now all-electric systems are challenging hydraulics. Trial runs of existing jobs are invited by a machine builder.
Technical progress is usually a matter of a giant leap forward followed by a period of consolidation - certainly an apt description of the recent history of high pressure diecasting, during which pneumatic machines have steadily yielded ground to their faster, more powerful and more accurate hydraulic counterparts It is perhaps not surprising, then, that most diecasters are still reserving judgement on what is arguably the next 'giant leap forward' - the replacement of hydraulics by all-electric controls, which Frech first demonstrated on its prototype DAW 80E zinc diecasting machine at GIFA as long ago as 1999
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"t's clear that Frech will be building machines for a long time to come, and we're just as committed to the business of making diecastings," said a leading diecasting foundry.
Since then, the technology has been taken up enthusiastically by users in Europe, the UK and the USA, all of whom talk of a machine that is faster, cheaper to run, more versatile and leak-free; but others are still speculating about the impact it might have on their own productivity and bottom line.
In response, Frech is showing its confidence in its new product by setting aside two electric machines - a 200kN and an 800kN - at its headquarters in Germany for running trials of 'real life' jobs.
Diecasters are being invited to loan a suitable die for a current job for a few days so that it can be run on one of the machines; and then go out and see what it has produced, along with all the performance data.
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