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News Release from: CoCreate Software | Subject: CoCreate OneSpace Modeling
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 September 2007
CAD slashes tool design time
Stanzwerk relies on the CoCreate OneSpace Modeling and CoCreate Model Manager software to speed tool design and map ever more complex die casting moulds.
Stanzwerk has cut the development time of its tool design and parts production in half using the CoCreate OneSpace Suite The Swiss company produces components for electric motors and transformers
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 Oct 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Stanzwerk engineers use CoCreate OneSpace Modeling to design the stamping tools, die-casting moulds and equipment that shape the components.
Its customers include ventilator manufacturers, manufacturers of power tools, and system suppliers for the automotive industry.
"Cost pressures and time to market challenge us the most", says Andre Kissling, the company's Head of Technology.
"Not only do we have to develop and produce our tools quickly to shorten production times and lower costs, but we also need to constantly refine our manufacturing processes".
Stanzwerk engineers have mastered stamping technology, even with very narrow parts with the smallest of diameters, and can reliably produce millions of such pieces.
To do that, the company relies on the CoCreate OneSpace Modeling and CoCreate Model Manager software to speed tool design and map ever more complex die casting moulds.
The CoCreate OneSpace Suite simplifies re-use of existing designs and also offers support for the development of new tools and processes.
Designers can split work on models during the detailing phase and later merge them regardless of the creation history and parametrical dependencies.
The company recently put a new, highly automated assembly line for aluminium casting into operation.
A robot arm puts six laminations simultaneously into one master mould.
The mould's elements can be changed on the machine within 20 minutes.
According to Kissling, it would have been impossible to map the automation of the casting process in 2D.
Today, the company can cast twice as many laminations at a lower cost.
At the same time, production has been noticeably accelerated.
"We halved production time because we design more quickly and the toolmaker can visualise the form a lot better in 3D, which means little need for rework due to ambiguities in the production process".
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