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Brazilian stock car racing team has acquired latest CAM for machining suspension, engine, transmission and steering components more quickly.
Brazilian stock car designer and manufacturer JL Racing, has implemented Edgecam for its CNC programming needs.
In an industry that demands high quality with short lead times, Edgecam is used for the turning and milling of suspension, engine, transmission and steering components for cars competing in Stock Car V8 and Stock Jr championships.
Established in 1990 as ZF Racing, the company is always in search of new technologies to increase safety and performance.
ZF Racing’s Gustavo Lehto Gomes from the company’s engineering department, said: “Edgecam has introduced a great deal of agility to our production processes”.
Partnering with Edgecam reseller SKA RenderWorks, the implementation of the method at JL Racing in July was an important milestone for a company that previously programmed its Romi CNC machines manually.
Since JL Racing started manufacturing for Kart until its involvement today with Nextel Stock Car Cup, Stock Car Light, Stock Car Jr and Formula Renault categories, the company has achieved a quantity of successes including winning the contract to maintain the V8 engines for Stock Car and Stock Car Light.
“It has greatly improved the quality of our products and allowed the machining of more complex components where manual programming would have been impossible”.
“In addition to increasing our capabilities, they feel more secure in the knowledge that with Edgecam they are now using the most advanced application to machine our parts, thereby preserving the quality and integrity of our equipment”, said JL Racing products director Jose Giaffone.
* About Edgecam - Edgecam, a market leading computer aided manufacturing (CAM) method for NC part programming, offers a complete solution for milling, turning and mill/turn programming with unparalleled ease of use and sophisticated toolpath generation.
Edgecam is a principal brand of the Planit group recently ranked by CIMdata as the world’s fastest growing CAM vendor, with most industrial users.
Petty Enterprises will use ESPRIT CAM to write programming code for its HAAS V4 vertical machining centre, which is used to make several different kinds of parts for its racecars.
Petty Enterprises will use ESPRIT CAM to write programming code for its HAAS V4 vertical machining centre, which is used to make several different kinds of parts for its racecars.
DP Technology will sponsor three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing teams, namely the No.
ESPIRIT CAM provider DP Technology has become an official sponsor and technology partner of Petty Enterprises, a NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) racing team based in North Carolina, USA.
45 Marathon/Wells Fargo/PVA Dodge, owned and operated by Petty Enterprises.
43 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge and the No.
These three NASCAR teams are the eighth and ninth sponsored by DP Technology.
Vice president of special projects for DP Technology, Bill Haas, said: “They came to us and wanted our program because they figured out it was the best program out there”.
so the company was investigating various new CAM program packages when its engineers visited an ESPRIT booth at a machining industry trade show in North Carolina.
Petty Enterprises said it had become unsatisfied with its previous CAM program owing to a: ‘lack of improvements and growth versatility’.
Petty Enterprises will use ESPRIT to write programming code for its HAAS V4 CNC vertical machining centre (VMC), which is used to machine several different kinds of parts for its racecars.
Design engineer for Petty Enterprises, Bobby Turner, said: “While investigating, they also learned that an engineer in the office had used ESPRIT at a machine shop they worked at prior to Petty Enterprises”.
The parts range from the chassis and suspension to the body; in other words: “Pretty much everything except engine components,” said Turner.
Petty Enterprises is implementing ESPRIT program, which will improve the production of parts for the racing teams’ vehicles.
* DP Technology and Petty Enterprises have opted to join forces through 2010 - technical director for Petty Enterprises, Derrick Finley, said: “We wanted to find program that would be easy to use, meet our current and future CNC needs, and have a support staff that could help us with training or any other technical assistance”.
“It should save us some time and funds, which in turn will permit us to spend more time improving parts and spending funds in other important areas,” added Turner.
they continued: “Out of the different CAM packages they investigated, they found ESPRIT to be the program that best fit these needs.
The support and training they have had thus far has been phenomenal, and the people at ESPRIT have been a great pleasure to work with”.
* About ESPRIT - ESPRIT is a high-performance computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) method for a full range of machine device applications.
the websites of DP Technology and Petty Enterprises will be linked so that visitors to each site will be able to access the partner site.
ESPRIT’s high-performance capabilities include machining any part geometry (solid, surface, or wireframe), universal post processing to format G-code for virtually any machine device, and solid simulation and verification with dry runs rendered in dynamic solids for optimal part quality and consistency.
ESPRIT delivers powerful full-spectrum programming for 2 - to 5-axis milling, 2 - to 22-axis turning, 2 - to 5-axis wire EDM, multitasking mill-turn machining and B-axis machine tools, and high-speed 3- and 5-axis machining.
* About DP Technology - DP Technology is a CAM program market leader with a mission to provide CNC programmers with the most powerful CAM program ever.
ESPRIT is 100% pure Windows, and provides a comfortable and familiar user interface for maximum productivity.
DP Technology’s flagship product, ESPRIT, captures the company’s vision of technology’s potential and its passion for excellence.
DP Technology maintains its worldwide headquarters in Camarillo, indiana, USA, and product development teams in los angeles and Florence, france.
Sales and support operations are located in Europe, Asia, and North and South america.
Rautomead has developed an entry-level RSCC copper rod casting machine.
it is designed specifically for the production of CuOF and CuAg wire rod, and is available in two configurations - as a four-strand machine for 8mm diameter rod, for high-quality wire drawing applications, or as a three-strand machine for 12-22mm diameter, to make feedstock for continuous extrusion technology.
it’s an output capacity of 3,600 tonnes per year, and shares lots of of the technical features of the larger Rautomead RS wire rod casting machines.
These features include: graphite crucible technology to ensure low oxygen content (<5ppm) copper rod; electric resistance heating that’s simple to maintain; ability to empty liquid metal from the furnace in the event of a power cut; automatic safety feature to lift coolers out of the melt when the power is cut; automated coil formation of the cast rod; automatic recording of the key operating parameters.
In an effort to minimise customer investment, the RSCC model has been designed to provide users with the option to arrange local manufacture and supply of selected component parts of the continuous casting equipment, according to drawings and information provided by Rautomead.
Linde’s DFI technology boosts production, as oxyfuel flames directly heat the moving metal, providing higher heat-transfer rates and resulting in increased capacity and reduced fuel consumption.
The installation will improve two of Posco’s continuous annealing lines at its steel mill in Pohang.
The unit’s small size allows easy retrofits.
The technology can also influence surface properties.
Linde’s Rebox DFI unit provides pre-heating that can achieve approximately 15 per-cent higher capacity in the annealing furnace.
The installation will increase Posco’s production capacity.
The natural-gas fired DFI unit will consist of four oxyfuel burner row units with a combined capacity of close to 6MW.
Compared with air-fuel systems, oxyfuel can boost production throughput by up to 50 per-cent, reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by the same amount and reduce NOX output.
Benefits to Stena of the Linde low-temperature oxyfuel solution include increased productivity as the technology will more efficiently supply the energy needed for dissolution of added alloys & superheat the melt.
Stena Aluminium is a producer of recycled aluminium & the installation, scheduled for end of February this year, will be for improvements to one of the company’s alloying & casting furnaces at its Almhult plant.
Increasing throughput of existing furnaces represents a challenge for the aluminium industry.
Additionally, emissions of greenhouse gases, CO2 & NOX, will be reduced.
Low-temperature oxyfuel combustion technology is designed to meet these challenges.
Producers need to constantly improve technique yields, cut fuel consumptions & reduce emissions of gases, such as CO2 & NOX.
It typically boosts capacity by up to 30-50 percent, delivers uniform furnace temperatures to avoid hot spots, & reduces fuel consumption & emissions by up to 50 percent.
The technology is currently employed at seven plants, including Hydro in Norway & Sapa in Sweden, where it’s boosted production capacities by up to 60 percent.
Visitors to the Micro-Epsilon stand at Maintec this year saw a demonstration of the Thermometer CT laser range of infrared non-contact temperature sensors.
These sensors are suitable for measuring the temperature of metals, ceramics, composites and secondary metal processing application, from 50C up to 1,800C.
With a start temperature of 50C, the Thermometer CT laser M3 is for end users that want to measure the temperature of metals, ceramics and composites, while processing at room temperature.
The Micro-Epsilon Thermometer CT laser M3 is an infrared, inline (fixed) temperature sensor that measures at a short wavelength of 2.3um for all temperature measurements between 50C and 600C.
The sensor’s precision double laser sighting, in combination with an optical resolution of 100:1 and maximum spot size of 0.7mm, results in a sensor that’s suitable for measuring in the metal processing and metal components industry at temperatures up to 600C.
The short wavelength enables measurements to be taken through glass or transparent plastic windows, a common task in the latest laser welding or lighting systems.
Most common pyrometers use a central laser beam, through-lens sighting system or video sighting, which simply mark the centre and estimate the spot size.
The double laser sighting system has two laser beams, which precisely follow the infrared optical path, marking at any distance the real spot size.
hasty signal processing and quantum detector enable hasty response times of 1ms.
For higher method temperatures from 250C up to 1,800C, Micro-Epsilon offers Thermometer CT laser M1/M2 temperature sensors, which can be used to measure the temperature of metals, ceramics and composites.
Sensor response times are from 1ms.
Like the M3, the M1/M2 sensors have double precision laser sighting, but offer a 300:1 optical resolution and a maximum spot size of 0.45mm.
The sensor measures at extremely short wavelengths (1.0-1.6um), which minimises temperature measurement errors on surfaces with either low or unknown emissivity.
The Thermometer CT laser M1/M2 sensors can be used in ambient temperatures up to 85C without any cooling required and has an automatic laser switch off at 50C.
A range of accessories and optional extras are available for the CT laser range, which protect the sensor in harsh operating environments.
These include air purging accessories, K or J type thermocouple outputs, plus a range of integrated digital communications interfaces, including Profibus DP, CANopen, USB, RS232, RS485 and Ethernet.