wire run time

[Millertime]

Is there a way to configure a post for a wire machine to post out a cycle time?

 

Thanks,

[Camgal_59]

Not sure if that is possbile as the run times depend upon the information in your technologies used in your EDM.

[Brad St.]

JO's Correct, it depends on the machine. The fanuc's / Makino's have a generic "speed" in their E power library settings you could use to gather a generic time but if you've run wires you surely know it all depends on the machining conditions as to how well it performs. Let alone on those machines you can dial the servo gain up or down to tweek the performance also.

 

If you have an experienced operator you could sit down and guestimate what speeds the different operations run at in the varying thickness and materials then use that to estimate time from the distance of the calculated cut length and number of passes.