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Article: For easier turnaround ... hard milling.(includes related article on cutting tools for hard milling)(Creative Mold of Glendale Heights, IL, attributes its success in high-speed machining to its use of hard milling)
- Article from:
- Modern Machine Shop
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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By using milling in place of EDM, this mold shop delivers finished work to customers days sooner.
Creative Die Mold has wasted electrodes. When the shop first began to experiment with hard milling, it assumed that it would streamline the EDM (electrical discharge machining) process by milling molds closer to their finished form. What the shop did not know is that, in many cases, hard milling would allow EDM to be eliminated altogether. So for some early hard milling jobs, the shop had EDM electrodes ready and waiting for molds that were completed entirely on the machining center. The shop threw these electrodes away.
Creative is a 72-employee mold shop ...