"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."Albert Camus
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Balancing Technology, Management, and Leadership
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." -- Alfred North Whitehead, 19th century British mathematician and philosopher As Achieve (my first consulting company) was working with our Clients to implement ...
Cayin Technology brings networked Digital Signage into Campuses
Taipei, Taiwan January 11, 2006 - Chinese Culture University has chosen Cayin Technology to implement a large scale networked digital signage solution throughout the four campuses of the University. 85 SMP-WEB display engines have been installed; all of ...
The Technology Behind Elliptical Cross Trainers Creates Unique Advantages And Benefits
The word elliptical means shaped like an oval. In the world of fitness and exercise, elliptical technology is a relatively new, innovative equipment design that draws on a smooth, elliptical movement to provide a low impact form of weight bearing exercise ...
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With modern wire EDM machines utilizing CNC (the Computer Control, or the brains of the machine if you will) for production, there is a user-interface device, the computer, where the worker will input the required data for design that will eventually guide the wire EDM machine during the passes and cuts in the process of creating the final product. Moreover, like any computer today, software is needed to run the equipment. This is no different in wire EDM. The CNC Controller and the software application comprise the wire EDM technology.
In much the same way that many different software applications for word processing or email exist, so to are there numerous wire EDM technology software applications for wire EDM machine CNC controllers, nearly all of which integrate with varying AutoCAD or similar CAD/CAM software. Today, developers can create the object in AutoCAD, designing tensile strength, variances, etc. and provide that to a wire EDM shop that will then plug this design into the wire EDM Technology software, which will in turn drive the machine, turning out the final product.
Some of the more popular wire EDM technology software applications today, which are typically supported on Windows Operating System machines, include:
-PEPS Wire EDM, developed and distributed by Camtek -VISI-wire, developed and distributed by Vero International Software -TracTrix, developed and distributed by Trixsystems
Each wire EDM machine CNC controller will have its own requirements as to what software can be used. However, nearly all software today can incorporate and use files with numerous extensions, e.g. ".DWG" files from AutoCAD, to decrease the time from development to production. Furthermore, by being able to pull the commands for wire EDM from the developer's CAD file, the final product will have no variance from the developer's final vision of that product before production.
About the author:
Wire EDM Info provides detailed information about wire EDM machines, machining, heat affected zone, technology and more. Wire EDM Info is the sister site of Metal Stamping Web.
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