• Consultancy
    • Material specific training and further education
    • Application engineering consultancy and project draft
    • Customer requirement and feasibility analysis
    • Logistics and economical considerations
  • Offer
  • Engineering
    • 3D construction suitable for casting, moulding and bonding
    • FEM calculation (static, dynamic, thermal)
    • Tool construction and manufacture
    • Manufacturing of the prototype
  • Prototype Inspection
  • Manufacturing
    • Optimum planning of the production processes
    • Observance of delivery dates
    • Holistic logistics concepts
    • Flexible change engineering

Project Management/Engineering

Engineering

Consultancy

We offer you mineral casting frames for future-oriented machine concepts. This includes extensive and competent consultancy. We will accompany you right from the first draft, through the analysis of your requirements and feasibility to logistics and economic considerations. With extensive, material-specific training and further education we will create a knowledge basis in your company. Analysis of customer needs as well as feasibility analysis of your first designs and ideas are a part of our consultancy philosophy, as well logistics and economic considerations.

FEM Analysis

Highly qualified staff assist you as development partners. Customised, technically well-engineered and economic mineral casting solutions are produced with the help of high performance 3D-CAD systems. From construction, using the most suitable materials to FEM calculations, tool development and manufacture to the first prototypes, you receive everything from a single partner - EPUCRET.

Already in the draft phase – when there is still plenty of constructive freedom – the results of FEM calculations, e.g. deformations due to the influence of forces or temperature, tensions, natural frequencies or even dynamic behaviour in the construction part, can be taken into consideration. Further simulations allow the properties of construction parts to be optimised by iteration (e.g. weight, rigidity, natural frequency).

Construction

We will be pleased to take on the mineral casting, suitable mould and bonding design as well as the construction of your machine frames and components. Technically perfected and economical mineral casting solutions are created on the most modern 3D-CAD systems.

Tool construction

An essential part of the know-how in mineral casting technology is the construction of tools, such as moulding forms and jigs. This where the decisive way is paved for high quality, economical frames and components made of mineral casting. We construct and calculate all tools on the most modern 3D-CAD systems and thus assure high flexibility in the case of changes in construction.

Interface optimisation

The EPUCRET development partnership goes beyond just technical advice on the machine frame– extending to the interface with adjacent machine components such as e.g. guides, casing, machine shoe, extraction of shavings. Further suggestions for design and optimisation of the interfaces are made in close collaboration with the component suppliers.

R&D

Engineering research and development form the basis for innovative frame solutions. Here we are guided by the requirements of the machine constructor for even greater precision and productivity. For this reason, EUPCRET developed the “intelligent mineral casing frame”, which prevents thermal deformation by means of a sensor/actuator system.

Manufacturing

Modern production processes and plant in two autarkic operating factories ensure economic, environmentally friendly and qualitative manufacture of mineral casting components as system solutions. On the basis of a modern PPS system, production and logistics processes are optimally planned, controlled, and monitored. Capacities are thereby used efficiently and delivery dates met.