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ultimately better electric motor performance, they are used by OEMs in a broad range of industries throughout the world. “Like most manufacturers, our company experienced a severe downturn in orders post 9-11. As a result, staff levels de-
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clined and they still have not returned to pre 9-11 levels in some departments,” said Tom Neuenschwander, L.H. Industries vice president-technology. “Gradually, the company has recovered and in 2013 is experiencing record sales. CNC manufacturing productivity is keeping pace with demand by using Mastercam’s dynamic toolpaths to get more done with fewer people and at higher levels of quality.” Progressive dies are sophisticated
tools manufactured to a motor OEM’s specifications. They are assembled from 100 or more high-precision parts, mostly 2D, made from extremely hard materials like carbide or tool steel. The
ITS CONSISTENCY SEALS THE DEAL.
Rotor and stator cores for electric motors are manufactured with progressive dies from LH Carbide. With each down stroke of the press one, two, or three rows of 0.010–0.035" (0.25–0.89-mm) thick lamination steel are successively die cut, stacked, compressed and interlocked into unique rotor and stator cores that could be from 18 to 80 laminations high.
CNC department cuts the parts to near net shape so that they can be efficiently shuttled through a series of critical-pre- cision downstream processes including heat treating, wire EDM, precision jig and surface grinding, and finally assembly. During the course of the week, pro- grammers receive hundreds of unique part designs detailed in SolidWorks. They use Mastercam X6 Mill from Mas- tercam/CNC Software Inc. (Tolland, CT)
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