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The European project envisages the reduction of costs by 35 percent and time by 50 percent

Faster and more economic with KnowEDM molds

Drafting PU01/12/2006

A new project has been created to three years of research and collaboration sponsored by the European Union which aims to improve the competitiveness of the European industry of moulds and precision engineering to reduce costs by 35 percent and cut by 50 percent the execution time. The start of the project took place at the headquarters of TNO, in Eindhoven last October. Feamm partnership, Ideko technology centre and various Spanish SMEs participating in the project.

The members of the KnowEDM include five European associations, Feamm by Spain, four technology centers (TNO, BCUC, Ideko and KU Leuven) and eleven SMEs, chosen from among eight European countries: Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Holland, Switzerland, Poland and United Kingdom.

All this will be possible to develop knowledge based on the automated EDM (Electro-Erosión) technology, which will be integrated in the tooling and manufacturing of high precision components. This project will be benefited from the implementation of the collection of knowledge, experience and effort from the consortium of 20 members, supplemented by contributions from associated companies. This will ensure that both the programme of work and their benefits will best be manufactured for the companies to which this project is addressed.

Within the KnowEDM project will develop three modules, each with a specific purpose:

Estimated time of the operation of the electro-erosión;
Automation of the design and manufacture of the electrode;
Automation of distribution optimized within the mechanical operation of high speed machining and erosion, on the basis of cost and time.

Modules to be developed in the project KnowEDM

Main objectives of the project KnowEDM:

Reduction of up to 50 percent of the time required in the design and manufacture of electrodes.
Reduction in the time of production through optimized decision between machining in high speed and electro-erosión.
Accurate estimation of time with EDM.
Improvement of integration in the chain from the design of the product to the production and the mold injection.

The KnowEDM project is being carried out by the programme of collective research of the European Union, of which the representatives of the technology centers assume both scientific and technological research on behalf of industrial associations and their member companieswith the support and participation of several SMEs in each country. This r & d funding scheme is intended to help European businesses to improve their competitiveness.

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