Choosing between wet and dry wire drawing isn't always obvious from a product spec sheet alone. Both processes produce drawn wire, but the conditions under which each operates, and the wire characteristics each handles best, are different enough that defaulting to whichever process a facility happens to have running can mean operating outside the process...
Die wear in wire drawing is often treated as an inevitable consumable cost to be managed through procurement rather than a diagnostic signal that contains specific information about process conditions. The two perspectives aren't mutually exclusive, but factories that treat die wear primarily as a cost to minimize through purchasing efficiency, without examining what the...