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Hi-Tech Mold & Engineering in Rochester Hills, Michigan, serves the plastics industry in product design and the manufacture of large prototype and production molds and fixtures. Hi-Tech is a full-service tool supplier to the automotive industry. It provides complete program management that includes...

A Makino V22 vertical machining center was used to manufacture a micro medical staple mold out of hardened 420 stainless steel. Previous processing of the mold was performed using electrical discharge machining (EDM), and required 67 hours of machine time to achieve 0.20mm corner radii._x000D_ _x000D_...

EDM has been commercially available and a part of the manufacturing landscape for fifty years. Though considered a "Black Magic" technology for many years, it has come into its own and is now looked upon as an indispensable and highly reliable manufacturing process.

Forging die production has traditionally been a time-consuming, multiprocess operation.TRW, a global supplier of suspension products to the OEM and aftermarket automotive industry, is redefining that tradition with the aid of Makino’s high speed, high definition approach to die machining.