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News Release from: Frech | Subject: DAW 20 die-casting machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 January 2005
Die-casting subcontractor improves
efficiency
Filling a gap in the range of locking force specifications for zinc diecasting machines has helped a subcontractor improve efficiency and machine utilisation and reduce deburring.
Filling a gap in the range of locking force specifications for diecasting machines has helped a subcontractor improve efficiency and machine utilisation 'A Frech machine for every die' - a simple but clear ambition that the UK's Jones and Wilkinson turned into a reality when a Frech DAW 50 arrived at its plant in Willenhall, West Midlands,UK
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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in the summer of 2004.
With the DAW 80 it purchased in 2002 and a DAW 20 it has been leasing from Frech UK since earlier in the year, the latest machine has completed the range of locking forces the company needs to accommodate all its tooling on up-to-date equipment.
"We have a number of tools that strictly speaking should go on a 50-tonne (500kN, but we have been running them on the 80-tonne (800kN)," said director Andy Wilkinson.
"The arrival of the DAW 50 will ease the burden on the 80-tonne (800kN) and allow our long-serving DCMT 30-tonne (300kN) machines to be relegated to a stand-by mode." Also on relatively light duties these days is the vibratory de-burring machine.
"It's there if we need it, but the amount of flash we had to clean up fell dramatically when the first Frech arrive and we expect that downward trend will continue," Wilkinson said.
Like many another zinc diecaster, Jones and Wilkinson depends on lock components and architectural hardware for much of its output, with the occasional more exotic item such as a component for a hand-held distress flare that recently came into its order book.
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