Development and Validation of Multi-Part Fixturing for Integrated Machining and Inspection in Wire EDM of Precision Medical Components

Citation: Iryna Honcharuk, "Development and Validation of Multi-Part Fixturing for Integrated Machining and Inspection in Wire EDM of Precision Medical Components", Universal Library of Engineering Technology, Volume 01, Issue 02.

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Abstract

The article is dedicated to the development and analytical validation of a multi-part fixturing approach for integrating machining and inspection in wire EDM of precision medical components. The relevance is determined by the persistent imbalance between machining time and dimensional verification in high-volume production, where inspection increasingly dominates the cycle. The novelty lies in reinterpreting fixturing not as a passive holding mechanism but as a continuous geometric reference that preserves coordinate integrity across operational stages. The work describes structural and process-level transformations associated with eliminating part re-clamping and embedding inspection into the machining configuration. Special attention is paid to the interaction between fixture architecture, measurement planning systems, and process stability under batch conditions. The work sets itself a task to explain how multi-part fixturing restructures production flow and reduces inspection dependency on alignment procedures. Analytical synthesis of recent studies and conceptual interpretation of system-level relationships are used to address this problem. The conclusion describes a shift from segmented verification toward continuous measurement within a unified coordinate environment. The article will be useful for specialists in precision manufacturing, metrology integration, and medical component production systems.

Keywords: Wire EDM, Multi-Part Fixturing, Integrated Inspection, Precision Medical Components, Coordinate Stability, Dimensional Verification, Manufacturing Systems, Metrology Integration.

https://doi.org/10.70315/uloap.ulete.2024.0102014