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Established in 1988, Earth-Chain Enterprise Co., LTD. (ECE) is dedicated in manufacturing professional magnetic tools and marketing them all over the world under the “ECE” brand. For more than 30 years, Earth-Chain Enterprise owns more than 30 key patented technologies for magnetic tools in many countries. ECE is the only manufacturer in Taiwan that can effectively apply magnetic technology into metal processing. ECE cooperates with more than 50 famous machine tool manufacturers, and distributed by 48 agents worldwide. ECE products can be saw in most of the main machine tool market, such as United States, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, China and other countries. With ECE’s complete large-scale production, and research and development (R&D) capabilities, it makes its brand very competitive in the international market.
World-renowned "small and diverse customized production" and "exclusive key technology"
Jason Chen, deputy general manager of ECE, is proud to say that ECE has an experienced R&D team who is responsible for innovating while targeting the market’s needs. More than 40% of the products they produce are customized. Recently, ECE has been integrating serial magnetic clamps with CNC machine tools, operating systems, robotic arms and other automated devices, designed to reduce manpower and easy to use operating processes. The products are also suitable for Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory concepts.
The application of magnetic tool clamping is quite extensive. Jason Chen introduced the linear guideway design case as an example. Traditionally, the set-up of a linear guideway requires to dozens of screws, not only time-consuming, but also limited by few options for screw holes. And it is prone to stress deformation problems after long-term use. The ECE design team uses magnetic force to clamp the linear guideway, so the operators only need two fingers to gently and quickly clamp the workpieces, which greatly shortens the set-up time, and can start automated production operations more quickly, also reduces the possibility of deformation. The adjustment accuracy of the magnetic force applied to the 4-meter linear guideway can be 2µm. In order to cope with the linear guideway with a maximum width of 65mm and a shortest width of only 7mm, ECE achieves customized designs by using replaceable induction block clamping design, allowing customers to have maximum processing flexibility with the least cost.
On the same magnetic chuck, customers can apply induction blocks for different purposes. "Saving the most costs for customers and creating the greatest value is our goal in designing products," Jason Chen said. HIWIN, PMI-GROUP, TBI MOTION, ABBA LINEAR TECH and other famous brands of transmission component manufacturers are all ECE's customers. Among them, HIWIN is the user who is fond of automatic magnetic technology. They used metal claws to clamp linear guideway before, but now they use magnetic chuck to firmly clamp dozens of workpieces at the same time, which greatly improves their transportation efficiency.
Not only trusted by major domestic manufacturers, ECE even went to Europe to compete with Italian manufacturers. In the international market, only Italian and Taiwanese manufacturers have the technology to produce magnetic chuck for railway tracks. Jason Chen said that with such key technology that the US general agent won the government tender and then commissioned ECE to execute the following design and manufacturing.
"All our products can be connected to automated smart production!"
In response to the global industry 4.0 trend, ECE has focused on development of automation in the past two years, designing customized automatic magnetic applications for famous manufacturers, such as Harford, KAFO, and DETA INTERNATIONAL. All ECE products can be connected with machines, robotic arms, control systems and operating systems to assist customers in transforming industrial 4.0 and automation. ECE also assisted domestic well-known manufacturers such as DETA INTERNATIONAL, VICTOR TAICHUNG, Hartford, MULTIPLAS ENGINERY, etc. to plan automated smart production processes. Customers can easily move towards the goal of smart factory by the help of Electro-Magnet ECM series for robotic arms, with the features of lightweight structure and circuit design, board development and modular design.
"How to connect robotic arms and magnetic clamps?"
Exclusive report: TIMTOS 2021 exhibition highlights
ECE will exhibit the application of magnetic clamps connected with the large-scale robotic arms of world-class robotic arm brand, "FANUC". This automated production process will be applicable to all machine tool industries, especially the automotive industry. ECE will also show "Battery Type Electro-Permanent Lifting Magnet", which combines the concepts of the Lifting Magnet and the Electro-Permanent magnetic chuck. Once the workpieces are magnetized, there’s no need for power supply anymore. Even in the accident of power failure, the lifting magnet can still firmly clamp the workpiece. This innovative technology won the SBIR Innovation and Development Project Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
ECE will also show a new type of magnetic chuck for surface grinders. “This new type of magnetic chuck does not generate heat and can be used without electric power after the workpieces were clamped,” Jason Chen said. “It can be used in the high-precision processing of the surface grinders and effectively solve the problem of thermal deformation which might lower accuracy. This is not only an exclusive technology from Taiwan, but it also won the CITD product development award from the Industrial Bureau. The development project has not yet been announced to the market, but only exclusively revealed in this TIMTOS exhibitor interview for our readers. It will be officially unveiled at the exhibition, which is quite exciting,” he added.
"Opportunities are reserved for those who are ready"
Jason Chen quoted the representative director Mr. Richard Wang's words often used to encourage employees as a summary. ECE has participated in the TIMTOS exhibition many times. Therefore, the company is ready to support customers who are affected by the epidemic this year. “However, the epidemic in Taiwan is really well controlled and the city has even not been closed," Jason Chen said. "Although the market situation next year remains unclear, we should grasp our innovation momentum and take the opportunities to promote technological reforms and upgrades. If we don’t do it when there’s the epidemic, it’ll be too late when the epidemic gets over,” he further said. ECE will now build the first intelligent demonstration factory of smart magnetic machinery in Taiwan, allowing the international market to see Taiwan’s progress.
Company name: EARTH-CHAIN ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
Business Contact: Emily Hou
Contact number: +886-4-26303737 #52
Contact email: ece@earth-chain.com.tw
Corporate Fax: +886-4-26303636
Corporate website: www.earth-chain.com
Booth number: S0715
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