- Title
- Integration of an electrical discharge machining module onto a reconfigurable machine tool
- Creator
- Roberts, Bryndan
- Subject
- Machine-tools -- Numerical control
- Subject
- Electric discharges
- Subject
- Manufacturing processes
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEngineering (Mechatronics)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/6182
- Identifier
- vital:21047
- Description
- Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is a non-contact manufacturing process in which material is removed from a metal workpiece by high frequency electrical pulses produced between an electrode and the workpiece. EDM machines are usually stand-alone devices, and are quite expensive. The objective of this research was to integrate an EDM machine and an existing reconfigurable CNC machine tool, using a modular approach, to enable conventional milling and EDM to be conducted in a co-ordinated fashion on the same machine tool.
- Format
- vii, 155 leaves: color illustrations
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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