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Hard, very hard, and often dirty

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The finishing of parts covered with wear-resistant coatings, in chrome or hard metal, often presents considerable difficulties.
Not only that, but often the method of coating itself involves the presence of blowholes and bubbles containing slag that severely hinder both the machining and machining with wire erosion.
The latter is the preferred one when you have through profiles, for its precision and for the good degree of finishing achievable.

Unfortunately, however, the blowholes, with their often non-conductive content, cause the wire to break frequently and make processing slow and annoying.
The automatic threading with which some wire erosions are equipped for the same reasons works poorly and often does not work at all. Pieces that should be performed in a few hours are prolonged, with no production, and ultimately expensive and no longer ‘convenient.

The new CNC that manages E:cut is installed on an industrial PC with a 32-bit Windows XP operating system. ( Previous systems operated in DOS, or under Windows 98 ).

The higher speed of the operating system has led to an extremely effective cutting control. The setting of the machining so that if there are difficulties in cutting the wire backs up and tries again several times, eliminates the breakage of the wire.

The new CNC that manages E:cut is installed on an industrial PC with a 32-bit Windows XP operating system. ( Previous systems operated in DOS, or under Windows 98 ).

The higher speed of the operating system has led to an extremely effective cutting control. The setting of the machining so that if there are difficulties in cutting the wire backs up and tries again several times, eliminates the breakage of the wire.

XP also allows the Ethernet networking of the PC, then installing a remote control program, you can control the progress of the cut, but, importantly, you can remotely control the machine, so, in case of a stop, you can ‘give a further retreat, and normally you can continue the work even without being present.

Tests carried out have led to a 4-fold reduction in the execution time of a series of pieces. The intrinsic hourly cost of Ecut, about 10 times lower than a conventional wire erosion, has reduced the cost of about 40 times!

E.cut and Green Economy

CO2, Greenhouse effect, Biodiesel, Wind, Solar… these are the magic words that the press uses to fill the media… and its pockets.
We must have the hybrid car, but nobody tells us how much it costs to change the batteries. The solar panel is mandatory if we have to redo the roof, but how much does maintenance really cost? Is it possible that a high-speed tunnel creates so much noise and nobody says anything about the devastating wind turbines that disfigure our landscape? And all these pseudo-alternative sources don’t have the sole effect of increasing the extraction of oil, increasing pollution, and the gain of some caliph?
And all this is called Green Economy!!!

What should the E.cut technology be called then?
Few machine tools have similar characteristics.
1) Low current consumption, max 3 KVA
2) Use natural water with completely biodegradable vegetable additive
3) Maximum material utilization thanks to a cut of only 0.2 mm.
4) Recovery and reuse of scrap up to minimum size, (see expensive or precious metals)
5) No swarf

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These topics are only one part, the most obvious, to apply the word Green Economy to E.cut.
Actually, it is the technology itself that is revolutionary, and leads to unexpected gains and savings. It is erosion cutting technology at such a low cost (20 times less than wire erosion) that it is green.
It is the possibility of making pieces with radically different cycles, at an incredibly lower cost than Green.

E.cut allows you to “DO” Green Economy,
in your company,
and the gain, of putting it

in your pockets!

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