Sodick has broken the 1,270 mm~2/hr wire-cut EDM speed barrier by combining the process with waterjet cutting. The company unveiled the technology at Chicago's IMTS show, September. The linear motor-driven Hybrid Wire machine can rough cut (first cut] at a speed 20 times faster than wire cutting by additionally employing the waterjet process. Sodick has worked with Flow International to develop the technology which offers: graphite cutting at 10,150 mm~2/min (approx 203 mm/min for 50 mm thickness); D2 (52 HRC) processing at 14,100 mm~2/min (94 mm/min for 150 mm thickness); while hole cutting, previously requiring a separate machine, can also be performed on the Hybrid Wire EDM.
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