doi: 10.3850/978-981-11-0749-8_709
Product Cost Modelling for Micro-EDM Drilling
G. D’Urso, G. Maccarini, M. Quarto and C. Ravasio
Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Dip. di Ingegneria Gestionale, dell’Informazione e della Produzione, Italy
Abstract
The recent miniaturization of components in manufacturing has increased the production of lightweight and sophisticated systems in many different industrial fields. Micro Electro Discharge Machining (micro-EDM) is one of the most extensively used contactless and chipless machining processes. Although it is one of the most used technology, there are a few research works which investigate the economic implications of this machining. This paper reports a model cost to estimate µEDM-machining costs, including fixed and variable costs. A case study was presented taking into account micro holes on stainless steel obtained using different electrode materials. The capability of the model was demonstrated.
Keywords: Micro-EDM, Model cost, Micro drilling, Cost estimation.
