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tHe new EDER EDDS-2 Innovation allows
marking and identification of diamond/PCD
drawing dies and other costly tools within
seconds.
this is effected by marking a small specific
and continuously individual numeric
DataMatrix code onto the steel casings of
the relevant tools in a couple of seconds
with high precision, leading to their full
identification and allowing administration
of specific die-tool data immediately.
today, in modern wire drawing mills and
cable plants, various tens of thousands
costly diamond/PCD die-tools are in
permanent use, asking for collection
and registration of lots of information
to grant trouble-free wire drawing
operations onwards. Property data such as
manufacturer, fabrication number, die-tool
material, die-geometry, bore-size, delivery
and usage date, etc, has to be registered.
Likewise this has to be done also for
variable performance data, eg time/
endurance of die-applications, number
of repairs, usages with new bore-sizes,
drawing statistics, etc.
until now, all this data has been collected
and registered statistically by personnel
onto paper in more or less circumstantial
and time-consuming procedures, then
getting stored externally and with the hope
to get them on hand again when being
needed later on.
the new system from eder, a family
owned company, simplifies this collection
of data. the marking, reading and
administration of all important die-tool
data can now be executed directly in a
short space of time.
The new EDDS-2 device and system uses
a special dot-peening procedure to mark
a specific, individual numeric DataMatrix
code within seconds only onto the
casings of costly diamond/PCD die-tools.
thereafter, all relevant property and
variable performance data of these tools is
registered into a specific EDDS-2 software
and can easily be read and administrated at
any time.
The entire EDDS-2 system uses a specially
developed software which can run on
nearly all commercially available computers
and the specific hardware components,
such as the Dot-Peening unit with an
electrically driven tungsten carbide
precision marking pin. Furthermore there is
the control board, the data read-out device
and the take-up carriage for the dies to be
marked.
the dies to be marked will be supplied from
a magazine towards the marking position of
the EDDS-2 device, where the marking pin
will dot-peen mark each one of the relevant
die-casings with an individual specific
numeric DataMatrix code.
After the marking, the dies, by means of a
conveyor belt, will be transported to the
read-out station, where the marked codes
will be checked for their readability by a
special controlling device.
if the code cannot be read-out properly,
the relevant die-tool will be automatically
removed from the conveyor belt and will
be transported to a separate collection area.
thereafter, a proper code-marking of this
tool can be undertaken.
Eder Engineering – Austria
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Dot-peening DataMatrix
marking from Eder
▲ The EDDS-2 system