TRW Automotive Canada replaced EDM process with High Speed Machining in Die machining.
This change has certainly paid off for the company. It has seen dramatic increases in productivity. The new process has halved the toolroom’s overall process time for die production. Moreover, it has trimmed the number of steps needed to manufacture tooling from nine to only six and significantly boosted labor efficiency.Compared to the old method, the company was to produce more dies today with considerably fewer people.
2003 article
http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2003/10/08/auto_parts_make/
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