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News Release from: Frech | Subject: DAW 80F RC hot chamber diecasting machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 June 2005
Real-time control brings flash-free
casting
The real-time control capabilities applied to diecasting machines is helping a UK diecasting company to extend its expertise in manufacturing flash-free, net shape components.
The real-time control capabilities of diecasting machine builder Frech is helping FisherCast Global to extend its expertise in manufacturing flash-free, net shape components Frech UK has installed a DAW 80F RC hot chamber machine for zinc alloy diecastings at the company's European Operations plant at Welshpool in Wales, UK
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our manufacturing capability in the Welshpool plant has always focussed on small, detailed components up to typically 250g and a surface area of 75cm2".
"The new Frech will take us well beyond that, up to 750g and 275cm2, allowing us to offer a fuller service to our customers".
" We selected the latest Realtime Control system to ensure that there is no compromise on the standards we insist on from our own machines, and to maintain a repeatable, consistent product." Heinlein added: "Also important was our confidence in Frech as a partner; in particular, the back up and technical support they could offer - both on-line through the machine's modem, and in person through Frech UK's local engineers and support staff." Six new tools have been manufactured for the Welshpool machine already, five of which are for newly-acquired customers.
Fishercast's international order book includes OEMs and Tier I and Tier II suppliers in the automotive, telecommunication, industrial control, appliance, power tool, hardware, electronic, medical and defence industries.
Alongside the strategically important Realtime Control option that Fishercast has chosen, the DAW 80 has practical features standard to all hot chamber machines in Frech's latest model F Series that make life easier for anyone who operates it.
Examples include the machine housing, which can be retracted completely for maintenance and die changeovers; a combined display screen and control desk on a swivelling overhead arm that saves on floorspace; and the tried and tested - and therefore easy to use - Datadialog control system.
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