High Energy Applied Technology (HEAT): Real-World Examples of HEAT Transcript

Right now I would like to get into to some real world applications that are taken directly from customer request and also demos. Many of these examples that we are showing you guys today involve poor flushing conditions. This is a trim dye for the automotive industry. You can see our average rough speed is abou

inMotion Transcript from: Modern Machine Shop
Posted on: 8/28/2008

Right now I would like to get into to some real world applications that are taken directly from customer request and also demos. Many of these examples that we are showing you guys today involve poor flushing conditions. This is a trim dye for the automotive industry. You can see our average rough speed is about fifteen point three five square inches. Our key technology utilized well of course the HEAT technology flushing wizard along with belly wizard is always active when we are utilizing HEAT. Of course the impact was dramatically reduced cutting time with no wire breaks. If you could see the voids in the material, this is a very difficult part so utilizing this technology really helped our cutting speed.

If you could see some of the data provided here I won't get into every little thing but you can see at the bottom there the cycle time is about two hours and six minutes. You are looking at a contour length of about eight point six inches perimeter length. Three pass machining one cut and two trims averaging about a forty about a forty RA surface finish utilizing twelve thousandths high speed wire.

Another example of a poor flushing condition we've, it's one cut on the two outside perimeter the inside where the arrow is we have a few trim cuts just to show surface finish differential. You can see the average cutting speed again. If you look at the particulars here this was standard versa cut brass or any brass for that matter, stainless steel. The average thicknesses went from one inch to four inch. The average thickness overall happened to be about two point five. Some particulars at the end, the cycle time was fifty-two minutes and the wire consumption which we will get into in a little bit later on another example.

Very difficult part here, inside gear shape. Average rough speed here was about twelve square, two hours and eight minutes. Again all produce a dramatic decrease in cutting speed. See the particulars here, fifty-five tooth gear. A big difference I would like to go over the bottom is our wire consumption which has been averaging now fifty percent less than our competitor. You could actually get a good snapshot at the bottom. That whole job utilized about one point nine pounds of wire, two pounds of wire. So we all know the cost of copper wire. If you could associate fifty percent less cost in that over a year time, it's a substantial amount of money.

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