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In the present work, the principle of electrochemical dissolution was used to generate precise micro slits (kerf) on a flat stainless steel 304 workpiece, using a thin copper wire of diameter 30 μm as a tool. This variant of conventional electrochemical machining is called as Wire Electrochemical Micromachining (Wire-ECMM). The process was modelled in two dimensions with weak field formulation using finite element method (FEM) and the algorithm was implemented using a code in MATLAB (R2016a). Prediction of anode profile was done and this predicted profile was compared with the experimentally obtained profile. For this purpose, the distribution of iso potential contours in the domain of simulation was obtained by solving 2-D Laplace's equations for potential function in Cartesian coordinate system which was further used for quantitative assessment of current density at different points on the anode boundary …