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EDM is slow, expensive, and unattended-friendly. That combination makes it the most-overlooked bottleneck in mold and die scheduling.
In most job shops, the bottleneck is a machine. In a mold and die shop, it's a person. Capacity planning has to account for that.
Mold and die shops are the longest-cycle work in machining. A single program can occupy a machining center for 6–14 weeks. Scheduling that is a fundam…
Detroit's mold and die shops feed every tier 1 and OEM in the region. Long-cycle programs (16+ weeks), EDM bottlenecks, and OEM design changes mid-pro…
Mold and die shops live in a strange scheduling space — 12-week new mold builds running alongside 3-day repair jobs. In Chicago-Rockford, that complex…