EFFICIENT DIAMETER MEASUREMENT

Task	Drawing die geometry has a big influence on wire drawing quality and production efficiency. The most important parameter for a drawing die is the diameter, and it has to be measured many times in a production environment. Diameter should be measured when dies are received from the supplier, when selecting a drawing series, and when regrinding and repolishing. All these operations add up to a lot of time and money spent on diameter testing. Some methods are faster than others, but with most methods you have to choose between speed and accuracy.
Solution	Conoptica delivers measurement equipment that is both fast, accurate and cost effective. In addition to diameter, other parameters can also be measured. Choose from a range of instruments according to your needs regarding speed, accuracy and volume. Conoptica also delivers automatic die feeding & sorting systems for large volume applications.
Benefit	In addition to time and cost savings, there are other improvements with this solution. This is a non-contact technique, and as such very resistant to wear compared to contact measurements. You save money when you don’t have to replace expensive test objects. The measurement results are not operator dependent, making it easy to achieve uniform quality even with unskilled personnel. All units from Conoptica are calibrated to extreme precision with traceability to national standards and measure the true hole diameter. Resulting wire diameter is influenced by many factors such as material, drawing speed, lubricants etc, and is available through an offset table. Measurements are automatically entered into database or spreadsheet, avoiding human error.
Step by Step	Manually Place drawing die in instrument Press the measurement button Record results either manually, or automatically to a database or spreadsheet Automatic Load a magazine with dies into the Automatic Die Feeder & Sorter Select options for processing Wait for the dies to be measured and sorted while results are automatically stored