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FASTOOL - EU (Research)
Toolmaking is an important industrial sector in Europe.
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It has a turnover of 11 billion euros and consists mainly of SMEs.
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Manufacturing of tools for plastic injection moulding is a labour-intensive process.
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To remain competitive, flexible and low-cost, automation of existing production equipment
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will be essential.
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I manage a company that manufactures this kind of mould, which is used to make plastic
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objects, but which also manufactures computer keyboards, this mouse, this telephone.
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All the kind of plastic objects we encounter every day by the million.
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And to be competitive, you have to be fast.
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Mould and dye manufacturing is a highly competitive international business, with global players
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demanding lower prices, higher quality and reduced delivery times.
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This is the aim of a European project called Fastool.
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It's a collective research project carried out by industrial associations on behalf of
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their members.
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Fastool comprised the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.
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In the Netherlands, ERG-Metallonie represents 120 SMEs.
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In Germany, Enseggesellschaft represents 180 enterprises.
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In Spain, ASCAM represents 209 SMEs and in the United Kingdom, GTMA represents 299 SMEs.
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The research and development network also extends to the TNO Centre in the Netherlands,
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IPT Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, Fatronik in Spain and the CRDM in the United Kingdom.
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The total Fastool budget, 3,516,000.
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The European Union contributed 1,757,000.
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And it's in the UK at the University of Buckinghamshire Chilterns in High Wycombe, at the Centre
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for Rapid Design and Manufacture, that a complete workshop prototype was set up in line with
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the Fastool project.
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Run by the Fastool software, it also includes automation elements, such as this rail-mounted
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transporter in yellow or this manipulator robot.
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The project is looking at the applications in modernising facilities, in skills base
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and reducing programming times.
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The role of the trade associations in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and in the UK is
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to disseminate that knowledge on best practice techniques and technologies out to the SME
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community on this pan-European research project.
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This vertical milling centre is part of the automation demonstration facility, which is
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being built at CRDM.
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It has a modern controller, but it will be linked with an older Herco machine, which
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has a very dumb controller.
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The third machine that will be linked to this system is an EDM machine with an intermediate
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controller.
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It is designed to show the feasibility of installing low-cost automation into a workshop.
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Any configuration of workshop can be adapted to this system, therefore you do not have
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to redesign your workshop in order to include automation as with conventional systems.
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In concrete terms, this kind of graphite blank is used to make the moulds.
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A machine has to be programmed to shape this kind of object, and until recently, that took time.
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What we have done is to reduce the programming time.
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For an object like this, it takes about three hours of programming, and we have cut that
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down to three minutes.
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It is a fantastic improvement, because the people doing this, the people who can program
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these machines, are very scarce.
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So if you manage to reduce the time they spend programming, it is a great advantage.
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We work together with TNO and the Fraunhofer Institute in Aachen.
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They work primarily on defining a set of strategies to machine graphite electrodes efficiently,
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and ended up really with a paper procedure which defined the steps that you had to go
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through to machine the parts, and then our part of the process is to turn that procedure
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into an automated piece of software which can be used by pretty much anybody.
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So the benefit for the SME is that he can set that process running, he can then concentrate
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his efforts on doing something else, preparing the next electrode or actually running the machine.
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This is the fast tool control software.
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This window we use to enter the details of tool jobs, and this window we use to schedule
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the jobs that we have entered.
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It is very easy to use.
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I can take a part and move it before another part in the schedule, and the next thing that
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I might do would be to activate the schedule.
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Manufacturing a complex mould involves various machines in the workshop.
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The blank, meaning the piece that is going to be machined, is set up on a pallet carried
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by the yellow monorail from one machine tool to another in the workshop.
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The machine tool is supplied by a cable system, above in our case, because of the height of
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the monorail, but in other situations a telescopic arm could be used to feed the machine.
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Not all machine tools can be supplied from above.
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That's why a robot has been developed to supply them from the side.
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This manipulator can put the pallet inside the robot.
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It will also make it possible to rotate it and to introduce an electrode inside the EDM machine.
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Now imagine you are the machine tool, the robot is going to bring you your pallet.
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So, by using the outcomes of the fast tool project, SMEs can expect the following benefits.
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A reduction in NC programming times by up to 95%, an improvement in graphite machining
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so that it's faster, a reduction in labour costs by extending the working day, a reduction
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of machine amortisation costs by increased utilisation of expensive equipment.
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In effect, an increase in competitiveness as a result of lights-out operation.
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The most important thing is to be able to keep the development of these plastic elements
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here in Europe. This means that we also have to be able to keep the manufacture of these moulds too.
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And this even if it means using expensive machines and highly skilled workers.
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And that's precisely what fast tool allows.
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- Fecha:
- 26 de julio de 2007 - 10:32
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- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
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- 07′ 48″
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- 4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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