Two heads prove better than one for EDM machining

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Volponi said the unit has met its goal. “We have been using the machine for five months and I can confirm that our principal objective has already been reached.” The shop employs the unit for the production of grooves or details that milling machines cannot reach. “The new machine even allows us to work on two different areas of a die,” he added.

New unit forces production rethink

The machine has changed production flows in the workshop, too, Volponi noted. “As we have a high-speed EDM system, we have decided to subdivide the production differently: we will increase the percentage use of the EDM, reducing the flow time over the high speed. In this way we are able to start the milling of the next mould sooner.”

Volponi explained the company’s business philosophy, which is based on internal management of the principal activities relating to the manufacture of the mould: dies, punches and kinematics. “Other preparations – for example, the structure, plates, etc. – are managed by consolidated partners. Numerous modifications during the process that we had to manage every day led us to require a highly flexible structure, able to respond immediately to the requests of our customers, who include leading car manufacturers in Europe.”

Today, ILMA’s consolidated structure is subdivided into three main areas: the department of R&D and design; the mould production department, with significant specialisation in the production of steel and aluminium moulds; and the department for injection of plastic materials, which relies on of a wide range of plastic injection moulding machines.

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