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News Release from: Sodi-Tech edm | Subject: Sodick linear wire AQ535 EDM machine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 June 2004
Formula 1 subby invests in linear wire
EDM
Formula 1 specialist sub-contractor that offers rapid response and top quality, and was impressed by supplier back-up, has expanded by investing in a linear wire cut EDM.
Formula 1 specialist sub-contractor Hi-Tech EDM is on a winning streak with its latest investment in a Sodick linear wire AQ535 machine, purchased in January The company has six Sodick machines, and is the largest EDM subcontractor in Coventry, with major customers across the UK
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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MD Bob Duffin explains, "In motor sport there are only two things that matter: rapid response and top quality - Hi-Tech provides both.
We invest in the best equipment and have the skills and capacity to turn jobs around very quickly - quite often a job will arrive in the morning and need to have been completed and shipped back to the customer by that evening.
The new Sodick linear machine has given us not only additional capacity but also the ability to handle larger workpieces." Hi-Tech has been doing work for Mercedes-Ilmor, which makes the engines for McLaren, for some 18 years now.
Two examples of the challenging wire EDM tasks that the company tackle for these engine parts include cutting very fine splines on the ends of crankshafts and also creating crankshaft damper weights.
These latter items are manufactured in the same material that is used to make armour-piercing bullets, and so demand a great deal from the machines that cut them.
Naturally, with such rapid turn-around times, rock-solid reliability is crucial, as Bob explains; "We can't afford down time in our market.
With Sodick machines the service is good, the back-up is excellent and the running costs in terms of consumables, is very low.
When it came to investing in a new wire machine, we wanted a solution that provided us with scope for the future as well as benefits now.
We knew the technology was moving towards linear machines - so the choice was obvious.".
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