AgieCharmilles High Performance Sinker EDM

Boost Your Runtime Efficiency

Optimize Your Production

The FORM P series includes a whole family of choices: Achieve your production objectives and meet your customers’ expectations, with three different sizes of machines delivering the control of accuracy you need, thanks to rigid mechanics and high-resolution glass scales. Moreover, the FORM P series’ available Accura C-axis and its high-torque capability help you for executing complex cavities.

Shorten Your Delivery Time

The FORM P series leads to high running time without manual intervention thanks to multiple capabilities for Automation. Profit from a pallet/electrode changer (linear, rotary, robot) as well as smart features like Part Express and Job List management.

Drive Speed And Quality

GF Machining Solutions’ die-sinking EDM know-how is fully embedded in the FORM P series through its EDM process management. Our Intelligent Speed Power Generator (ISPG), in association with innovative feature iGap, maximizes the material removal ratio by generating the best EDM spark settings in keeping a perfect surface finish accuracy.

AgieCharmilles FORM P Series - Sinker EDM

Part Weight

The construction as a short C frame and the oversized casting guarantee mechanical stability and precision throughout the life of the sinker EDM machine. In addition, the robustness of the die-sinking EDM machine absorbs all the machining forces to maintain a precise gap between the part and the electrode.

Positioning Resolution

To obtain reliable positioning accuracy, only linear glass scales are effective. They eliminate all the classic errors, such as backlash, expansion and wear effects. The axis servo control system developed by GF Machining Solutions for die-sinking EDM machines is a closed loop measurement solution designed to provide infallible accuracy, whatever the travel.

Productivity

Automation keeps production going whatever the time. Your results are shorter lead times, higher productivity and quicker payback of capital invested in your die-sinking EDM machines. With System 3R Automation solutions, production can continue running round the clock, seven days a week. The possibilities are endless with our die-sinking EDM solutions.

Machining Stability

Available on the AgieCharmilles FORM P 600 as a variant, the thermostabilization provides perfect and accurate machining over time and whatever the temperature conditions during die-sinking EDM machining.

Fast, Cost-Effective Manufacturing

Fast Polishing Of Deep 3D Shape

Say Goodbye To Polishing

100 Percent Mastery Of Part Quality

Superb Productivity—Right Out Of The Box!

The latest-generation powerful Intelligent Speed Power Generator (ISPG) makes this machine deal for meeting the highest demands for machining accuracy—right out of the box.

Located close to the working area, the ISPG offers complete digital data monitoring and a great number of technologies are already parameterized. Get a fast start on machining a wide range of materials with no additional tuning while enjoying best spark control, a high material removal rate, and high repeatability of form accuracy and surface quality.

Achieve high efficiency and productivity without sacrificing quality!

_{Built-In Strategies For Your Success}

Optimal machining parameters with no tuning, thanks to TECFORM expert system. With its machining strategies dedicated to specific application, TECFORM makes easy work of machining ribs, surfaces, sub gates, contours, punches, micro machined characteristics.

_{Save Money With Lowest Electrode Wear}

Savings—of electrodes, electrode wear, and machining costs—are built into this solution’s iQ (innovation + Quality) technology. You achieve higher productivity and efficiency, greater accuracy due to respect for details, and can produce more parts per electrode.

Driving Your Speed And Quality

Accelerate your machining time while increasing the quality of your finished parts, with the improved process monitoring to continuously and automatically optimize cutting conditions.

Maintain high detail accuracy and consistent surface quality—even when working with small small electrode undersizing—thanks to the generator’s iGAP technology.

Advance your part quality while speeding up your machining time.

_{Boost Your Productivity}

Speed up your machining process and boost the quality of your finished parts with improved process monitoring. Get continuously and automatically optimized cutting conditions and high removal rates and achieve accuracy of details and consistent surface finish even with small electrode undersizing.

_{Clone Your Cavities}

In case of multi-cavities machining operation, our Wear Partitioning features (Software algorithm) will optimize the way to "spread" the electrodes among the cavities. This will lead to get the optimum homogeneity of profiles among all the machined cavities.

Broaden Your Scope Of Applications

Widen your scope of applications and prepare for upcoming machining challenges thanks to this solution’s included technologies for machining a wide variety of materials.

Easily machine an array of materials including copper, copper-tungsten, brass, graphite and steel with the optimized settings are standard to this machine. Increase your ability to meet the demands of a wide range of market segments.

Address the needs of a wider market and be ready for emerging machining challenges.

_{Ready For Every Challenge}

Get set to easily address upcoming machining challenges. The included technologies with this solution help you easily machine a wide variety of materials, like copper, copper-tungsten, brass, graphite and steel to make you more versatile. Address the needs of a wider market today and in the future

_{Start Fast, Finish Quality.} 

Our Expert System called TEC FORM gives the possibility to mix some materials for machining a cavity, in order to take the best of each for the operation. For example : Roughing fast with graphite, then reaching a very fine surface finish with copper electrodes.

Maximize running time.

With Automation readiness integrated into this solution’s design, future Automation upgrades are seamless and you can achieve fast ROI and capitalization on your investment. Available in multiple configurations, the machine can be adapted to your needs. Optimize your investment for best performance. Accelerate your productivity per operator with this solution’s ergonomics and design focusing on operator productivity. Get three-sided working area access in combination with a fixed table and drop tank to drive your operator’s productivity and fast setup.

Boost productivity, keep your processes.

This machine easy to integrate at a low investment due to modern, advanced software functionalities for connectivity and job handling. In parallel, you benefit from a variety of onboard technologies, a high-end generator, a proven mechanical concept, and a wide array of available options and configurations.

Drive your productivity.

Experience increased productivity with this solution’s integration of a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) to the die-sinking EDM machine. This machine allows automatic transfer of measurements from the CMM to your machine—no human intervention necessary—for safe transfer of offsets and undersizing. Achieve a big increase in accepted parts and increase your process reliability.

Advancing Your Unattended Running Time

Increase your unattended running time with this solution’s ability to accommodate a mix of parts of different heights on the table or accept a robot feed. Experience the benefits of programmable dielectric height for flexible Automation. Moreover this machine has been conceived for being as much ergonomics as possible, for saving time and pushing high the safety for operators. Get on the road to higher unattended running time with a solution that eliminates intermediate setup and make easier any manual intervention thanks to the machine design.

Boost Your Productivity

Speed up your machining process and boost the quality of your finished parts with improved process monitoring. Get continuously and automatically optimized cutting conditions and high removal rates and achieve accuracy of details and consistent surface finish even with small electrode undersizing, thanks to iGAP intelligent spark control.

Say Goodbye To Intermediate Setup

Take your unattended running time to the next level with this solution’s accommodation of a mix of parts of varying heights on the table or from a robot feed. Eliminate intermediate setup and human intervention and increase your unattended running time.

Tackle High-Value, High-Margin Parts

Produce higher value parts and enjoy higher margin, thanks to this solution’s carbide machining capability. Right out of the box, you profit from speed wear performance for excellent surface finish in quality carbide, high respect for electrode details and extended tool quality and lifespan.

Complex Electrodes: No Problem

Highest geometrical accuracy is easily within reach, even when using big, heavy and oddly shaped electrodes. Achieve highest precision in any case, thanks to this solution’s robust C axis delivering high torque and inertia control

Traceability To Outpace Competitors

Increase your competitiveness in risk-averse industries like aerospace component manufacturing, thanks to this solution’s traceability features.

Get measurement and machining reports to support qualification of final parts, process improvements, cost control, and improved performance and process mastery. In parallel, increase both your productivity and competitiveness through monitoring and availability of warnings by text message and email.

Achieve maximum efficiency with the solution that increases your ability to quickly react during unattended machining.

Get The Traceability Edge

Increase your competitiveness with the measurement and machining reports generated by this solution’s traceability system to support final part qualification, improve your processes and costs and provide you with improved processes and performance.

Boost Your Productivity And Competitiveness

with our traceability system’s monitoring and warning capability. Receive warnings by text message and email and react quickly during unattended machining time. Achieve maximum efficiency and advance your productivity and competitiveness.

Easy Saving And Manipulation Of Your Jobs

Archive all programs and technology you have tuned, thanks to simple and ergonomic manipulation through the HMI. Easy way to archive, duplicate, transfer from computer or machine to another computer or machine, thanks to the single file management. Every data needed for a machining operation is contained into a single file.