” The jewelry industry has resisted using newest technologies for a long time," says Olaf Brandt, director of Design & Technik, "but for the world market this is an absolute necessity." He must know it, because the majority of his customers come from foreign countries. Orders and communication go over the InterNet.

Two examples: For one customer 20 watches are to be set with 30 diamonds apiece and engraved with a very fine design, 120 dials are to be set with diamonds for a large Swiss manufacturer. Absolute precicion in small noble series are the speciality of Design & Technik.

EdiTasc has options for continuous interpolation along paths, controls up to eight servo motors and has look ahead logic for speed-optimized interpolation. The device driver, developed by TRIMETA software GmbH, controls the process in real-time by a CPU, which communicates extremely fast with the standard system components.

The precision of the servo motors, which is necessary for jewelry manufacturing, is attained by EdiTasc's backlash compensation.

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