Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a machining process that discharges electric sparks from two electrodes on a metal sheet to detach the desired shape. Also called spark machining, it employs ...

The new iWire technology automatically identifies and adapts wire speed to changing erosion height conditions during wire EDM, eliminating wire breakage and reducing overall wire consumption per job.

Most of us have seen those demonstrations of metal parts that mate together so finely that, once together, they have no visible seam at all. But how, exactly, is this done? [Steve Mould] has a video ...