What's New on the Wire? EDM Machines Offer More

摘要

Machine makers are expanding what medical manufacturers can do with electrical discharge machining while refining the process itself "You guys are crazy!" That's what Makino EDM product line manager Brian Pfluger was told - loudly - by a medical-industry customer after Pfluger recommended he use coated wire to make a custom housing for cancer treatment machines. Coated wire costs twice as much as uncoated, standard brass wire, so its use in the client's application would increase manufacturing costs by about $100.