Wisner Associates offers a range of machining capabilities to help you get the best parts for your application. We work with all materials whether it be wood, alloy, plastic etc. We have both on shore and off shore options depending on the scale and build requirements of your project. Besides basic machining capabilities we also offer finishing, assembly and sub assembly options for parts we machine. Below is a brief description of the processes we offer:

CNC Machine | Wire EDM | screw machine

Milling is the machining process of using rotary cutters to remove material, from a workpiece by advancing (or feeding) in a direction at an angle with the axis of the tool. It covers a wide variety of different operations and machines, on scales from small individual parts to large, heavy-duty gang milling operations. It is one of the most commonly used processes in industry and machine shops today for machining parts to precise sizes and shapes.

Milling can be done with a wide range of machine tools. The original class of machine tools for milling was the milling machine (often called a mill). After the advent of computer numerical control (CNC), milling machines evolved into machining centers (milling machines with automatic tool changers, tool magazines or carousels, CNC control, coolant systems, and enclosures), generally classified as vertical machining centers (VMCs) and horizontal machining centers (HMCs). The integration of milling into turning environments and of turning into milling environments, begun with live tooling for lathes and the occasional use of mills for turning operations, led to a new class of machine tools, multitasking machines (MTMs), which are purpose-built to provide for a default machining strategy of using any combination of milling and turning within the same work envelope.

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In wire electrical discharge machining, also know as wire-cut EDM and wire cutting, a thin single strand metal wire, usually brass, is fed through the workpiece, submerged in a tank of dielectric fluid, typically deionized water. Wire-cut EDM is typically used to cut plates as think as 300mm and to make punches, tools, and dies from hard metals that are difficult to machine with other methods. 

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A Swiss style lather is a specific design of lather providing extreme accuracy (sometimes holding as small as a few tenths of a thousandth of an inch. A Swiss style lathe holds the work piece with both a collet and a guide bushing. The collet sits behind the guide bushing, and the tools sit in front of the guide bushing, holding stationary on the Z-axis. To cut lengthwise along the part, the tools will move in and the material itself will move back and forth along the Z axis. This allows all the work to be done on the material near the guide bushing where it is more rigid, making them ideal for working on slender work pieces as the part is held firmly with little chance of deflection or vibration occurring. This style of lather is commonly used under CNC control.

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Equipment (Not limited to):

CNC (5 Axis, Horizontal), Wire EDM, Swiss Screw, Laser Weld