Swift support.

The Renault F1 team cut the time it took to make the rear wing support for the R26 used last year. Using electrical discharge machining (EDM) technology from Charmilles (www.agiecharmilles.us), the team replaced 10 separately machined and welded pieces with one machined from a single block of titanium. The EDM part took 40 hours to create versus 57 for the conventionally built part.

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Title Annotation:	OBJECTS OF INTEREST
Publication:	Automotive Design & Production
Date:	Mar 1, 2007
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