THE CHALLENGE EDM Department is located in the Chicago suburb of Bartlett, Ill., and serves customers in the aerospace, defense-communications, telecommunications and medical industries. The company handles research and development, production and turnkey solutions, all under one roof. It was increasingly nding itself needing capability for miniaturized part production and mold development. It wanted to expand its micromachining capabilities to accurately measure and inspect microcomponents, to further enhance its part quality. What was needed was a solution that would get the company closer to the 1-micron scale. THE SOLUTION EDM Department purchased a Makino EDAC1 Ram EDM machine to help it gain micromachining capabilities. It also purchased the Innite Focus optical 3-D metrology s

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