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Since the past two decades, improving machining accuracy, precision, and quality of machining in Wire-ECMM has been a prime focus of researchers across the globe. Application of high frequency pulse voltage for machining has served the purpose to a large extent. However, with high frequency pulse voltage, machining rate is compromised. Often, the use of very high frequency also necessitates the application of high voltage amplitude which consequently, leads to increased power consumption. To solve this problem, this research proposes the use of sinusoidal voltage waveform (SVW) and triangular voltage waveform (TVW) instead of a conventionally used rectangular voltage waveform (RVW) for machining. A mathematical analysis of the machining gap in the process using a mechanistic approach suggests that accuracy in terms of kerf width improves significantly when SVW and TVW are used for …