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SchoForm GmbH has been working with HASCO for nearly 20 years
Full service provider enables greater
productivity through standardisation
Standardised high-quality mould units provide a reliable basis for
modern mould and toolmaking, and their consistent use makes for
efficient processes. This was reason enough for SchoForm, a
German mould and toolmaking company based in eastern Saxony,
to opt for standard mould units from HASCO for the last 20 years.
The latest example is a 32-cavity hot runner mould, for which
HASCO also supplied the complete, ready-to-assemble "hot half",
as well as most of the standardised components.
tools a year, whereby the thermo mould units from HASCO, the
set machines are experiencing Lüdenscheid/Germany-based full
a renaissance. "Not many com- service provider of standardised
panies nowadays have them in quality mould units. "We have
their portfolio," says managing enjoyed very good cooperation
shareholder, Dirk Scholze. "The with HASCO for many years," said
field was in constant decline a Alexander Thiel, who has also
1/ Standardised mould with accessories few years ago, but is now coming been in the company from the
back very strongly again." very beginning. The mechanical
Since 2002, SchoForm, which With customers from the fields of engineer started as a construc-
is based in Demitz-Thumitz near electrical engineering, electrical tion engineer in 2002 and was last
Bautzen/Germany, has been build- installation and the automotive year appointed managing director.
ing and supplying injection mould- industry, the company has so far He is absolutely convinced about
ing tools for thermoplastics and been able to cope very well with HASCO: "Whether we are talk-
thermosets as well as compres- the special challenges of the ing about standard mould units
sion moulds for thermosets. With coronavirus crisis. or customised components, the
a workforce of 21, the company From the very beginning, quality of the products is always
produces around 50 moulding SchoForm has opted for standard outstanding."
Complex 32-cavity hot-runner
mould
One of the largest and most
complex projects that SchoForm
has handled recently is a 32-cav-
ity hot runner mould with needle
valve for the production of elastic
inserts from a TPE material for
the cable conduit in wall-mounted
junction boxes. The customer, the
Schneider Electric group, manu-
factures such junction boxes for
the Scandinavian market. The
2/ 32-cavity hot runner mould for TPE
conduits for a wall-mounted box
(Picture: SchoForm GmbH, Demitz-Thumitz,
Germany)
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USER REPORT 3/ Mould base assistant allows individual configurations moulding tool is designed for 24/7 Finally, the mould was then made operation and guarantees at least 95 % of HASCO components, a million shots. starting with the ready-drilled In HASCO, SchoForm again found K-plates and broad range of a partner that was able to cover Z-standards to the DLC-coated the entire spectrum of services, ejector elements, ensuring a long not only in an advisory capacity service life of the mould. In addi- and for designing the system, but tion, HASCO’s online mould base also in the technical coordination assistant is an enormous help at during mould design and then in the design stage. "A super-tool," the production and special pro- said A. Thiel, "simple and intui- cessing. "And that with a cost/ tive to operate. And you always benefit/quality ratio that other sup- have the latest available standard pliers were unable to match," said mould units to hand." Alexander Thiel. Under these conditions, "We were particularly fortunate SchoForm was able to concen- that we, as a mould and tool man- trate on its own strengths and ufacturer, were able to pass on carry out the precision machining a good deal of the responsibility in its own modern machinery pool. for technical communication with "We merely provided support the customer to HASCO," said through machining steps such A. Thiel. In this respect, he added, as deep-hole drilling in HASCO's there was an intensive exchange Special Machining Center (SMC) of ideas and experience between without competing with the the HASCO technical service de- customer," said Stephan Wendt, partment and Schneider Electric, Mould Base technical sales engi- which reinforced the customer's neer. decision to order the mould from A number of components offered SchoForm. exclusively by HASCO are also An important point in the entire being used. For example, the decision-making process was also Z9675 diverting plug enables the that HASCO was able to offer and conformal positioning of cool- supply the hot half with the rel- ing holes in areas in which ejec- evant guarantees. tors are located. In this way, the www.fachverlag-moeller.de The mold & die journal 1/2021 13
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the entire process chain. This
begins at the development stage,
where native CAD data from
standard elements with installation
spaces can easily be implemented
into the design by drag-and-drop.
"With the ready-to-assemble coor-
dinated standard mould units, we
save a considerable amount of
assembly time," said Alexander
Thiel.
Standardised mould units
guarantee an optimum
value-added chain
Additional synergies come about
through the standardisation in
machining and assembly, because
4/ Hot half supplied as a ready-mounted subassembly the required tools can be reduced
to an absolute minimum. Apart
temperature control can be made provided perfect backup when from these time and cost benefits,
significantly more effective. starting up the mould and finding the use of standardised construc-
The complete hot half was sup- the optimum machine parameters. tion elements also accelerates the
plied as a ready-to-mount subas- "We were able to go direct from time-to-market, which, for many
sembly with the support of Tobias the first sampling to the approval/ new developments is of funda-
Kröber, the technical sales engi- release of the mould, because, mental importance in an ever-fast-
neer responsible in the HASCO hot after only a short time, nothing but er world. In plastics processing,
runner department. It is naturally good parts were coming out of the standard units that have proven
compatible with all other compo- machine," he said proudly. themselves thousands of times
nents in the mould system. "For SchoForm tries to build as much guarantee maximum safety and
us, it made everything extremely as possible on the basis of stand- reliability in production.
easy in terms of the assembly and ardised HASCO mould units, not During a scheduled maintenance
coordination. Here, again, it has to least also because of the ease of turnaround or should wear and
be said that the precision, execu- obtaining spare parts. Another tear or a defect be found, the
tion and timing were outstanding," reason for the continuous coop- standardised mould units can be
said A. Thiel. "As far as the assem- eration with HASCO for Alexander repaired quickly, thus shorten-
bly was concerned, we couldn't Thiel is the possibility of con- ing the downtimes to an absolute
have imagined anything better." stantly being kept up to date when minimum.
"In the collaboration with HASCO technical innovations come about.
on this mould project, everything Finally, for the mould and tool SchoForm increases its
ran absolutely smoothly," said manufacturer, standardisation productivity with HASCO
A. Thiel. is a fundamental requirement
Even during the very first phase, nowadays to remain permanently Dirk Scholze: "Because the orders
things all worked out perfectly, competitive in a world with ever for moulding tools we receive
whether this involved the produc- faster change and increasing digi- here in the most eastern point of
tion time for the hot runner and talisation. Germany generally involve very
exact adherence to the delivery Maximum productivity is a key demanding and complex projects
times for all the standard mould success factor in view of the in- that entail a comparatively large
units – which made it possible to creasing competitive pressure and amount of coordination, our excel-
deliver the mould absolutely on especially in economically difficult lent cooperation with HASCO
time – or the quality of the pro- times. Standardised mould units makes it possible for us to meet
duced parts. HASCO's technical for mouldmaking guarantee sus- the customers’ stringent require-
application department was also tainable success because, when ments."
present at the sampling stage, and used consistently, they optimise The mould for the TPE conduits
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of a wall-mounted box products under one roof,
is of course only one HASCO is an absolute
example of the many full service provider for
products supplied to mould and toolmaking.
the electrical installation Its portfolio of high-qual-
segment. The company ity standard mould units,
also supplies sophisti- which has been built
cated injection moulding according to a modular
tools for the automo- system and is perfectly
tive industry, although coordinated to the needs
Alexander Thiel says this of the customers, in-
segment has become creases its competitive-
very much quieter in ness on a lasting basis.
recent years. "We used One of HASCO's basic
to have mainly orders principles is to offer not
for diesel components," as much as possible
adds Dirk Scholze, "and but as much as neces-
this included charge sary. To make it easy
air pipes, AdBlue filling for customers to build
systems etc. The trend is high-quality moulds,
now moving naturally in HASCO supplies the
the direction of alterna- right product and materi-
tive propulsion systems al combination for every
such as electric vehicles. application.
But the company's port- HASCO’s well-balanced
folio now also includes product portfolio in-
moulds for interior cludes, apart from many
automotive components other digital services,
such as window han- a range of native CAD
dles, door liners etc. It data with installation
also often happens that, spaces for all conven-
if the customers so wish, tional CAD systems. An-
SchoForm will help them other important benefit
design the applications is the technical expertise
to suit the mould. of the excellently trained
staff, who are able to
Full service provider guarantee HASCO’s
for mouldmaking customers outstanding
support and assistance
With more than 100,000 in all areas.
5/ HASCO product portfolio with over 100,000 quality standard
mould units
(Pictures 1, 3-5: HASCO Hasenclever GmbH + Co KG,
Lüdenscheid, Germany)
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