EuroWire January 2020

Technology News

Shaving and shaped dies – collaborative problem solving

▲ ▲ Paramount has collaborated to produce shaped dies and shaving dies

COMMITMENT to experimentation drives the process of innovation forward. Successful manufacturing operations collaborate with their suppliers and customers, to conduct trials, collect data, and let the data guide process improvement and future business decisions. Companies across multiple product segments have collaborated with Paramount Die throughout the last two years to evaluate a large range of geometries, coatings and constructions in order to find their optimal solution for shaving wire and for drawing shaped wire. Standard shaving dies are offered as insert-based and cased solutions. Several standard sizes, geometries, coatings and casing options are available to provide improvements and a basis for future experimentation. Customer-specific shaving die solutions are said to be delivering superior quality and purity of shaved wire rod to manufacturers drawing stainless steel wire, valve spring wire, cold heading wire, aluminium wire and brass wire. Innovative shaped profile dies, developed with Paramount Die, offer increased surface quality, tight tolerance control, and wire/bar straightness. Ovate-shaped wire drawing solutions have more than doubled drawing speeds while increasing high-quality finished tons. With technical shape engineering capability, Paramount can design single and progression drafts to meet specific needs. Shaped dies are available in ovates, rectangles, squares, hexagons and custom shapes. Standard carbide blank sizes, coatings and casing options are available to match current drawing practices. A collaborative team can then evaluate the performance of the drawing die to deliver recommendations for progression and shape design improvements. Wire production efficiencies are improving because each die design is rooted in the needs and feedback of each individual customer, their production process, and the market segment they serve. The customer and Paramount Die’s technical staff then put the dies and production processes through improvement trials to determine the optimal solution.

Paramount Die www.paradie.com

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