CNC high-speed machine tools can not only produce high-precision and high surface finish products, but also save a lot of time, greatly improving the Dura Mold's production efficiency.

Two years ago when Mr. Mark Kite founded Dura Mold in the United States with only 20 employees, he did not expect that it would soon grow into a production company with 39 employees and a variety of high-end mold processing capabilities. Today's Dura Mold can manufacture injection molds, zinc alloy and aluminum alloy die casting molds, and prototype molds for a variety of industries, including automotive, electrical appliances, lighting, home and office equipment, and recreational vehicles. Among these, diversified strategic choices have played a crucial role in the development and stability of the company. Of course, it is equally important to find suitable high-speed processing technologies to meet the diversified needs of the company.

Meeting the challenge

Product prices and delivery times are two major challenges that Dura Mold has always faced. In the increasingly fierce competition in the global market, we must constantly strive for possible customers to ensure that our products enter the market earlier than other company's products, in addition to reducing costs and providing highly competitive price. Not only that, but in many cases, Dura Mold faces other challenges that need to help customers develop parts that can be molded and cast, providing end users with functional services. Dura Mold has also worked with customers many times to improve the part's mold release performance by changing the part geometry, improving the flow of the material, allowing it to inject into hard-to-reach areas of the mold, or redesigning parts. For steel parts that cannot satisfy the user's requirements and are not suitable for final assembly, no secondary processing is performed and direct disposal is performed. Dura Mold's mission is: "The first time the product is ready."

CNC high-speed machine tool brings higher mold processing efficiency

Dura Mold's production of oil circuit connecting plate molds for the production of oil transmission link plates in automotive automatic transmissions. There are more than 1,000 CMM coordinate measuring machine test points with tolerances less than 0.0010".

It was precisely because of its adherence to strict product standards and self-requirements that Dura Mold chose the high-speed machining center manufactured by Creative Evolution of the United States. The machine's excellent control performance can satisfy Dura Mold's "production as soon as possible and use as little as possible. "Humanized operation processing" goal.

In the past two and a half years, Dura Mold has purchased three high-speed machine tools from Creative Evolution: two HSD-500 machines with three-axis travel of 20′′×16′′×16′′ and a spindle speed of 30000r. /min;The other is HSD-1400 type, the three-axis stroke is respectively 53′′×28′′×26′′, the spindle speed is 24000r/min. The two HSD-500 machine tools have high machining accuracy and are mainly used to process small parts with complex geometric shapes. The HSD-1400 machine is larger and more powerful and is used to machine large workpieces with high hardness. The HSD-1400 machine tool can use larger tools to perform relatively quick rough machining of parts. Because the machining speed is not as fast and agile as small machine tools, it can only meet the general production requirements.

CNC high-speed machine tool brings higher mold processing efficiency

HSD-500 Vertical Machining Center

CNC high-speed machine tool brings higher mold processing efficiency

HSD-500 Vertical Machining Center Related Data

Creative Evolution's new CNC machine control system constantly analyzes geometry beforehand to accurately reproduce the desired product shape. Its unique dynamic look-ahead feature allows it to continuously analyze the amount of data change based on the geometry of the workpiece being cut and the unique properties of the machine. The latest technology in high-performance hardware and simpler computer logic can enable users to ensure their competitive advantage.

Changes in the basics and power of the machine tool, even small changes in the machine itself, can have a large impact on the machine's performance. The CNC machine of Creative Evolution Company has been rigorously and independently debugged to achieve the best performance, so that it can reach each command position smoothly according to the program, and will not cause excessive stress or damage to any component of the whole system of the machine tool. On-site laser calibration guarantees the accuracy of on-site commissioning. With the relevant program control, the machine tool can be operated quickly and accurately.

Practice has proved that these machine tools have been used effectively and work well. Since the introduction of CNC machine tools into Dura Mold, the staff has been busy writing code for the machine tool. Dura Mold chose to use this more manoeuvrable and more powerful machine, despite having a cheap, easy-to-use economical machine.

Attention to machining accuracy

Abandoning the assurance of machining accuracy, simply emphasizing speed and unmanned operation is not meaningful. In the production of molds, machining accuracy is a very important factor. Recently, Dura Mold produced a two-cavity mold with over 1000 CMM coordinate measuring points on each part. In the first mold sample produced by this type of machine tool, the test result is zero tolerance. During processing, Dura Mold always maintains the shape, position, dimensions, and segment points of the part within a tolerance of 0.0010". In fact, the tolerance size is generally between 0.0002" and 0.0015".

Dura Mold has achieved a level of accuracy of 0.0001′′ for machining each part, in particular the electrode plays a key role in it, because after milling, high precision and consistency can make other subsequent processing easier. Not only is the accuracy high and the consistency is good, then discharge machining (EDM) can work more effectively to produce a better mold cavity.

However, several machines that were originally equipped in Dura Mold's workshop did not meet the demand. The old machines had reliability problems. In order to reduce production costs and cope with the continuing challenges from competition, it seems that there is still a certain temptation to use old equipment. However, the fact finally proved that Dura Mold invested in the purchase of Creative Evolution's machine tools, which increased its competitive advantage on the basis of maintaining a reasonable cost. Moreover, the high performance of this machine is comparable to other well-known products. Purchasing a machine that is more than twice as expensive as a normal product does have to withstand a lot of pressure. This single investment is equivalent to the overall investment in many small businesses, or even more. But overall, at a relatively small cost, CNC machines produced by Creative Evolution can provide the same or higher production capacity, and the company has always had a good reputation for fulfilling service commitments.

The speed requirement

CreativeEvolution's CNC machines perform very well in terms of processing speed, accuracy, repeatability, and finish. Dura Mold uses the tool to "grind the hole" on the machine tool and uses a tool to drill the hole at a certain position. The precision is high. The hole diameter after processing is beautiful and the processing speed is much faster.

The main advantages of using the HSD-1400 machine are: Combining large-size machining with fast, powerful spindles, the ability to cut materials is strong, and small tools can be used effectively, with a maximum speed of up to 24000 r/min. Engineers can use tools to repair molds and make engineering changes without dismantling them. The HSD-1400 machine tool can process the entire mold assembly in many cases, which can save a lot of time.

Achieve better business results

Thanks to the use of Creative Evolution's CNC machine tools, Dura Mold's mold processing productivity has improved significantly. The newly equipped machine tool can produce high-precision and high surface finish products, enabling the product to have higher price competitiveness in the global market, and shorten the rework time, polishing time, assembly time and delivery time.

Products processed with Creative Evolition CNC machines have a high degree of finish. Dura Mold's customer report reflects that the precision and finish of the parts machined by this machine are high, and the life of the mold is also extended.

The newly equipped machine tool has greatly improved the production capacity of Dura Mold, saving half of the production time for a single product and achieving a “doing twice as much” effect. The company has adopted an unattended operation mode for machine tools, which allows the machine to carry out continuous day and night processing operations. It operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and ultimately improves the company's profitability.

The speed of the new machine tool is very fast. The CNC machine tool is used for machining. Dura Mold successfully overcomes the similar bottleneck problems such as milling and machining, thereby ensuring that the product can be delivered on time or even ahead of schedule. The company’s major automotive customers report that Dura Mold offers much better die casting quality than before, can die-cast more parts, and rarely requires repairs and replacement.

CNC high-speed machine tool brings higher mold processing efficiency

A close-up view of the local details of an oil circuit connecting plate with high accuracy and surface finish

Acquired praise

In the course of use, Creative Evolution's CNC machine basically did not have any problems, and sometimes even operators had problems. During the execution of high-speed machining, Creative Evolution provided great help to ensure the continuous and reliable operation of the machine tool. In the course of operation, problems can often be solved by telephone. If it is a matter of quality assurance period, Creative Evolution's representatives can arrive within a few hours to solve without waiting for a few days.

Similar to Dura Mold, companies facing similar challenges can also use this high-speed processing technology to find the most valuable processing methods. After all, new machines that are accurate, fast, reliable, and easy to operate are very good choices.

As early as 1992, Creative Evolution began designing new CNC machines with four major advantages:

1. High-performance, high-level new complex machine tools with CAD/CAM functions, 3-axis, 4-axis and 5-axis linkage;

2, with built-in network support, abandoned DNC system;

3, the use of open system structure, to avoid special parts, allows customers to choose the desired service;

4, the software has the ability to update, spend a moderate software cost will be able to get a new software upgrade, do not need to follow the industry's practice for the overall replacement.

According to the coating characteristics

According to the characteristics of surface coated Steel Pipe can be divided into: Clarinet (not coated) and coating tube.

The coating pipe has galvanized pipe, aluminum, chrome plated tube, alumetized tubes and other alloy layer of steel pipe.

The coating pipe is coated with an outer coating pipe, an inner coating pipe, an inner and an outer coating pipe. Commonly used coatings are plastic, epoxy, coal tar epoxy resin as well as a variety of glass type of anti-corrosion coating materials. Galvanized pipe is divided into KBG pipe, JDG pipe, screw pipe, etc.

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Application

1 pipe for pipe. Such as: water, gas pipe, seamless pipe, the use of steam pipelines, oil pipelines, oil and gas pipelines. Irrigation water tap with pipe and spray irrigation pipe, etc..

2 pipe for thermal engineering equipment. Such as boiling water boiler pipe, a super heated steam tube, locomotive boiler super heater tube, opium pipe, small smoke tube, arch brick tube and the high temperature and high pressure boiler tube.

3 pipe for machinery industry. Such as aviation structure tube (round tube, oval tube, flat and oval tubes), automobile semi axle tube and axle tube, automobile and tractor structure tube, tractor oil cooler tube, Agricultural Machinery with square tube with rectangular tubes, transformer tube as well as bearing tube etc..

4 pipe for petroleum geological drilling. Such as oil drilling pipe, drill pipe (Kelly and hexagonal drill), drilling, oil pipe, petroleum casing pipe and all kinds of pipe joints, geological drilling pipe (tube core, casing, active drill pipe, drilling very, according to the hoop and a pin connected first).

5 tubes for chemical industry. Such as: oil cracking pipe, chemical equipment, heat exchange, and pipe with pipe, stainless acid resistant pipe, chemical fertilizer with high pressure pipe and the transportation of chemical medium pipe, etc..

6 other departments to use the tube. Such as: containers with tubes (high pressure gas cylinders with the general container pipe), instrumentation, watches, shell tubes, injection needles and medical equipment, etc..

 

Sectional shape

Steel and steel products specifications is very wide, its performance requirements are various. All of these should be distinguished with changes in user requirements or working conditions. In general, the steel tube products are classified according to the shape of the section, the production method, the pipe material, the connection method, the coating characteristics and the application.

According to the pipe cross-sectional shape can be divided into: steel pipe and profiled steel pipe.

Shaped steel pipe is a kind of non circular section of the steel pipe. Including: square tube, rectangular tube, oval tube, flat oval tube, half pipe, hexagonal tube, hexagonal circular tube, equilateral hexagonal tube, tube of equilateral triangle, Pentagon plum tube, octagonal tube. A convex shaped tube, double convex tube. Biconcave shaped pipe, tube, oval - shaped tube, flat tube, tube diamond shaped, star shaped tube and parallelogram pipes, ribbed tube, drop shaped tube, internally finned tube, twisting reducing pipe, B type tube, D type tube and multilayer tube concave shape.

According to the shape of the steel pipe, it is divided into: equal section steel tube and steel tube with variable cross-section. Variable section (or variable section) steel pipe is a steel tube with periodic or non periodic changes in the shape of the cross section, inside and outside diameter and wall thickness. The main: external conical tube, conical inner tube, outer stepped tube, in the step tube, cycle section pipe, corrugated pipe, Spiral Pipe, finned tube and double barrel.



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