We were posed with a good question the other day - Why does Makino EDM take such interest in aerospace?
We have a long history of working with the aerospace industry. As a supplier to all tiers of aerospace manufacturing, we have provided machine tools, spindles, machining centers, customized machines, turnkey systems, and part processing development to this industry. It was only natural for us to want to help bring the aerospace community the latest information available concerning the use of EDM in manufacturing parts for critical aeronautical and aerospace applications.
If today’s EDM machines leave little or no recast, HAZ, micro-cracking, or change in surface hardness, then secondary operations after EDMing, like milling or grinding, can be eliminated. This would mean that the aerospace industry could now change their restrictive usage specifications for EDM that date from the 1970’s, and reduce time and expense related to these secondary operations.
