Assistant Manager He Jin-Tsann (third from right) and the Sparkle team presenting at the venue. Photo by Tsai, Jung-Chang.
Sparkle’s newly launched models are engineered to meet customers’ competitive demands through extreme ease of operation. Featuring a zero-training user interface and rapid integration capabilities, the machines leverage built-in APIs and post-processor integration to boost EDM machine utilization and enable smart production line integration. By maintaining high scalability and sharp market responsiveness, these systems help safeguard long-term industrial competitiveness.
According to Assistant Manager He Jin-Tsann, machines can—and should—practice lean management. By examining actual machine status through the lean-advocated “Four-Item” method, machine time can be categorized into standby, setup, machining, and abnormal downtime. Only the machining state generates added value for customers. Therefore, improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is essential. Sparkle’s EX Series die-sinking EDM and EXD Series micro-hole EDM were designed around this principle.
Over the past two to three years, Sparkle has integrated customers’ 3D software to recognize 3D tool geometries and their corresponding positions on the mold. Through dedicated post-processor design, the system performs automated interpretation and converts data directly into machining programs—dramatically reducing the time operators need to spend at the machine. Electrode tools are automatically translated, via 3D post-processing, into the appropriate edge-finding and calibration routines.
From automated production lines in Taiwan’s aerospace supply chain to European automotive mold manufacturing, Sparkle has successfully replicated and upgraded its automated lines for European customers. By integrating electrode-tool milling equipment with EDM systems, engineers can easily schedule two weeks of machining plans into the automated line. The machines can run 24/7 to produce mold products and, following lean concepts, coordinate workflows so that while the EDM is machining the mold, the machining center is simultaneously producing the electrodes required for that same mold—achieving a Just-in-Time supply chain.
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