Beaumont Machine Provides Small Hole EDM to SpaceX
The new Beaumont small hole machine at SpaceX – a new customer for Beaumont Machine – has a reach of eight feet in diameter and eight feet in height.
Beaumont Machine, a supplier of fast hole and small hole electrical discharge machines (EDM) for the aerospace industry, has provided service to market leaders such as Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney and General Electric for over 20 years. Recently, the company supplied a new small hole EDM to SpaceX, a new customer for the company. The new Beaumont small hole machine at SpaceX has a reach of eight feet in diameter and eight feet in height.
Company president Ed Beaumont notes, “As the needs in the industry are changing, we’ve made changes to keep pace. For the past three years, Beaumont Machine has been working with the advanced CNC control systems from Siemens to support the real-time connection to our power supply. This has improved our hole shape technology, breakthrough rate and overall holemaking process quality. We just completed a project with SpaceX, using this newly developed control system in tandem with integrated large ABB robotics for positioning of the electrode.”
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