The Danish company Oticon designs and manufactures hearing solutions for adults and specialized paediatric instruments. Oticon´s hearing solutions are complex High-Tech products featuring groundbreaking audiological concepts.  As these products need to fit comfortably and effectively in a human ear, they need to be assembled of extremely small and particularly detailed parts.

The manufacturing of these high-precison microparts parts requires the implementation of state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies, like Micromilling and WireEDM. The WireEDM technology is used to cut mould components made from hardened steel, where parts are particulary difficult to mill.

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Schuchard & Pollmeier GmbH is a specialist in the WireEDM technology serving other companies that need a high-performance and reliable partner. It is not therefore a surprise that the company chosed and has been using Fikus Visualcam since 2004.

The company is now known beyond the borders of eastern Westphalia as a reliable partner in metal processing and serves satisfied customers at home and abroad. The core business comprises EDM since the foundation and since 1998 surface grinding as well. The typical parts being produced are those for Tool Making (molds, dies and extrusion parts) for the Plastic, Automobile and Aircraft industries.

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Rezmin Tool and Die, a Canadian specialist in progressive dies for the automotive industry, has been challenged by low-cost competition from overseas.

Using the new CNC machines and the software from Cimatron, Rezmin has been able to stop outsourcing die sets. It produces them eficiently in-house at cost savings up to 50%.

This Sucess Story has been extracted from the European Tool and Mold Making Magazine and although it talks mainly about the CimatronE software, the customer highlights the benefits of Fikus Visualcam. We have also hightlighted the paragraph for you.

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Talleres Cridi S.L. is a Spanish company, that provides services along the complete manufacturing process chain, including product design, rapid prototyping, tool design and high­precision manufacturing, quality control and the assembly of parts.

Talleres Cridi S.L. has invested in the most modern CNC Machining centres, where Milling strategies from 2 axes up to 5 simultaneous axes can be applied, together with a Wire EDM Charmilles machine.

"Due to the variety of parts we manufacture, we need a robust, flexible and easy­to­use application like Fikus Visualcam, that reduces our overall programming time and ultimately improves the machining capabilities of our WireEDM and Milling machines", commments Josep Marsol, CAM Programmer in Cridi.

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