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Inconel is a family of incredibly strong nickel-chromium superalloys, with the ability to sustain itself in extreme environments, but these same benefits can cut against manufacturers, as Inconel tends to be particularly challenging to machine. PECM, however, machines Inconel in unique geometries with ease.

Tungsten, Molybdenum and related metals known as "Refractory Metals" are adept at solving issues in extreme-temperature environments-- but their capabilities go only as far as the manufacturing processes machining them.

Whether it's gas distribution plates or vacuum manifolds, remnants from processes like EDM, laser, or abrasion can still leave their marks in the underlying internal features of these critical parts, resulting in potential future damage. Voxel's PECM methodology, however, sidesteps these issues and may act as a uniquely beneficial process for the internal geometries found in certain UHP semiconductor hardware infrastructure.

Two very different devices (hollow cannulas used for dermal filler and fat grafting, and solid microneedle arrays used for collagen-induction skin treatments) both depend equally on the scalability and repeatability of the manufacturing processes used to make them.

Consider the following scenario: a part print calls out a sharp internal corner, and the machinist reads it, cuts it, and moves on. Nobody asks whether that corner should be sharp in the first place. On vacuum hardware, implants, and fatigue-critical aerospace and energy components, that corner is often the reason a part fails months or years later, not the reason it passes inspection today. Pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM) has a specific relationship with sharp edges: