WCA September 2012

Technology news

DataMatrix marking

❍ ❍ The EDDS-2 system

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.

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 of 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.

Eder Engineering – Austria Website : www.eder-eng.com

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