Current Development Status Of Wire Cutting Machine Tools

China's high-speed wire EDM machine tools originated in the early 1970s. Affected by the backward electronics industry at that time, the development was relatively slow. In the 1980s, the clarion call of the market economy was responded to by many small and medium-sized wire cutting machine tool manufacturers. However, most small wire cutting machine tool manufacturers were still in the stage of primitive capital accumulation at that time. They often did not have the ability to manufacture complete machines and could only produce in an assembly manner. There was no quality control in the entire production process, let alone research and development and innovation. By the 1990s, it was inevitable that it entered a state of disorderly competition. As a technology independently developed by my country, high-speed wire cutting machine tools have a milestone significance in the entire history of mechanical processing. After the rapid development in the 1980s and the fierce competition in the 1990s, when China's mold industry leapt into the world's third place with a soaring growth rate, the domestic EDM wire cutting machine manufacturing industry was facing a new round of market washout while maintaining a growth rate of more than 20%. Machinery manufacturing companies that once sprung up like mushrooms after a rain tried to get a share of the high-speed EDM wire cutting machine market, and some succeeded or failed. There were also many examples of short-lived success after the price war. After the fierce competition, it became calm, and after the vicious competition, rationality was sought. In the face of this new round of big waves, how can domestic high-speed wire cutting machines still dominate the market after the lead and sand are washed away?
At the beginning of the new century, with the increase in investment in the research and development of high-speed wire cutting technology, a kind of processing quality was significantly higher than other high-speed wire EDM wire cutting machines, and was close to the general low-speed wire cutting machine. On the basis of retaining the characteristics of fast wire cutting machine tools such as simple structure, low cost, good process effect, and low consumption during use, it cited the advanced concepts of international precision mold processing equipment and slow wire multiple cutting technology, which attracted the attention of many wire cutting manufacturers and users, and was gradually called medium wire cutting by users. Since then, in the history of the development of domestic high-speed wire cutting machine tools, the new term "medium wire" has gradually entered the sight of many manufacturers and quickly became the new darling of the cutting machine tool market.
Nowadays, the non-scientific name "medium wire" has become the code name for a type of high-end products in China's unique high-speed wire cutting machine. It is not only popular in China but also gradually showing its head in the international market. Many companies still believe in and are actively committed to promoting high-speed wire cutting machines to the world.
It is now recognized that multiple cutting can effectively improve the processing quality of high-speed wire EDM wire cutting machines, but not all high-speed wire EDM wire cutting machines can perform multiple cutting, or not all high-speed wire EDM wire cutting machines can achieve good process results after using multiple cutting technology. Only those high-speed wire cutting machines with high manufacturing precision and multiple cutting conditions in various aspects can perform multiple cutting and stripe-free cutting and achieve significant process results. After the high-speed wire cutting machine adopts multiple cutting technology, its processing quality is significantly improved and is close to the economical low-speed wire cutting machine, and the price and consumption of this machine tool are much lower than that of low-speed wire EDM wire cutting machine.
"At present, the technical strength of domestic enterprises is uneven, and the capital strength is also different. To bring about a new spring for high-speed wire cutting machines, we must first attach importance to technological innovation. Only technology is the foundation and guarantee of sustainable development; secondly, we can adopt the form of corporate alliances, led by strong enterprises, and unite or cooperate with related enterprises to achieve resource sharing by leveraging their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses; thirdly, we must engage in healthy and rational competition, and avoid simplifying products and preventing technological degradation. Now, our efforts in technology have brought about the popularity of "medium wire cutting", which is a path worth continuing to explore.