Maximising Material Usage

What was required

Needing minimal amount of wasted material due to programming using Wire EDM machinery

What difference we made

We manufactured as many parts from a single block of exotic, expensive material that has a finished thickness of 75mm. In doing this we saved our customer money and increased the turnaround time from 8 weeks to 4 days!

Other manufacturing techniques would not have been able to produce the parts in the drawing to the same level of accuracy and speed. This resulted in the customer winning the entire order.

Challenges

  • Fit as many parts in a single block or material
  • Very long lead times on material purchase
  • High cost for material
  • Highly intricate components needing manufactured

Solutions

  • Wire EDM technology and programming capabilities
  • No need for more than one piece of material purchase
  • Halved the price of material saving money
  • Technical ability of EDM machining with consistency of machined parts minimising discrepancies with thousands of machined components.

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