GF AgieCharmilles

In the past few years, a serious technological competitor for Electric Discharge Machining - EDM has arisen with High Speed Milling - HSM. HSM puts pressure on EDM wherever the speed of removal counts above all. GF AgieCharmilles are excellently in the picture about what performances milling is capable of, because the world market leader in high speed milling, Mikron Agie Charmilles, is part of their own family.

As a contract EDM company, Northeast EDM goes unconventional ways in the electrical discharge machining production of highly complex parts. The North American company successfully supplies the high-tech branches aerospace, power generation, medicine and machine construction with its products.

With spinal implants tested in its own operating theatre and the appropriate operating instruments, Innovative Spinal Technologies (IST) is a worldwide leader for products for minimally invasive spinal surgery. The Massachusetts-based undertaking develops, designs and prototypes all the products itself. ED machining and 5-axis milling are the key technologies.

Sheffield in England is the home of the company Pro Spark Ltd which manufactures high-tech parts for the medical technology, energy production and machine construction branches using two EDM wire-cutting machines from GF AgieCharmilles. With its lean structures, the company can react quickly and flexibly to orders which are executed with constantly high quality.

Great Lakes Mold is based in the US state of Michigan and constructs complete injection molds for components for the automobile, electronics and medical industries. The medium- sized enterprise also supplies individual tool elements, such as mold inserts, slides, ejectors or repair parts. For this, Great Lakes Mold makes use of the HSC and EDM machining processes as key technologies in tool making.

The company’s name, EDM Xpress, already express the corporate philosophy: Supply of ED machined parts by the specified deadline. The Californian undertaking offers job ED machining of the highest precision and is a partner in great demand, even among customers with their own ED machining application.

Since 1997, Frazero has been in great demand as a supplier of design, development and production for the automobile, aerospace and shipping industries. With its focus on conceptional interior fitting components, personalized projects and small series, the English company cooperates with the world’s best known car manufacturers. In production, Frazero puts its trust in milling machines from GF AgieCharmilles.

Initially a specialist in using wire EDM to produce incredibly small part, Classic Wire Cut of Valencia, California has become one of the most innovative manufacturers of surgical instruments and implants for the medical industry. As the company evolves, wire EDM remains a key technology for its high-tech production.

With the production of stretch blow molding tools, Krones AG offers its customers the service to manufacture PET bottles. Bavaria-based company uses the latest HSM machines from GF AgieCharmilles for the exactly detailed reproduction of the customer’s design.

Whelen is the only American manufacturer of emergency warning systems that manufactures its products completely within the USA. Robotics, many years of know-how, highly motivated employees and, finally, state-of-the-art machine tools, such as ED wire-cutting and die-sinking equipment from GF AgieCharmilles are the key to sustainable competitive ability in the global market.

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) and High Speed Cutting (HSC) are the key technologies today in mold and tool making, as well as in the manufacture of precision parts. Each process has strong points for itself alone, but also weak points resulting from the process. Used together, however, the disadvantages of one process can be compensated for by the advantages of the other process.