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News Release from: Frech | Subject: DAW-C hot chamber diecasting machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 January 2005
Diecaster has casting parameter routine
Windows-based and very user-friendly, die-caster has the invaluable casting parameter routine that calculates cycle variables in response to data about the part to be produced.
UK zinc diecaster Lesney Industries has expanded its rapidly growing arsenal of Frech hot chamber diecasting machines with the company's latest introduction - the DAW-C Intended for standard applications where the very latest technology is unnecessary, the new C Series nonetheless has all the key features of the S machines that were Frech's standard offering from the mid 1990s until the arrival of the DAW-F Series in 2003
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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From the four-model range encompassing locking forces of 200, 500, 800 and 1250kN, Lesney opted for a DAW 80C and it has successfully put the machine to work producing castings for architectural hardware.
The investment has given the company the benefit of fully proportional hydraulics on the injection end that allow the first and second phases to be programmed from the control panel, which comes complete with a 'lite' version of Frech's standard Datadialog program.
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All the information is logged and can be downloaded to a separate network computer so that it can be recalled to set up the machine the next time the job is run.
The DAW 80C is the third Frech inside a year to be installed in Lesney's London factory.
Until then it was equipped exclusively with machines designed and built in-house - a tradition that started, like the company itself, when British industry was getting back on its feet after the Second World War.
First in last November was a DAW 125S with DataVario controls, to be followed a few months later by a DAW 200 RC.
As well as introducing the company to the benefits of Realtime Control, in the interests of better part handling the second machine was purchased along with a Gripmat casting removal unit and cooling conveyor.
The main item on the agenda for the RC machine is a part for which a good surface finish must be achieved in readiness for coating - the kind of challenge for which Realtime Control was created.
Lesney managing director Mike James reckons the six-figure sum invested so far has been money well spent.
"All the machines have lived up to our expectations and we expect to get even better results as our operators become more familiar with them," he says.
"In fact four of them have been to Frech's HQ in Germany to train in how to use them to best effect.
On top of that we've laid out and tested the ground plan for our future re-equipment programme, which we expect will stay within the 200-tonne (2000kN) limit we've set ourselves.".
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