Cutting Tools
This category comprises tools that are used to remove material from a workpiece through shear deformation. Cutting tools are manufactured as single-point tools or multiple-point tools. Single-point tools cutting tools are commonly used for shaping, planing, turning, and similar tasks that require only a single cutting edge. Multiple-point cutting tools incorporate a number of teeth or other cutting edges, that can simultaneously remove material in a single pass. Examples of cutting tools include drills, reamers, planers, saws, grinders, shapers, taps and dies, and fly cutters.
Cutting With A Purpose
Founded in 1896, Bico Steel prides itself on being a value-add supplier of steel plate and forged steel blocks. Switching bandsaw blades helped the Michigan company prove its worth when asked to quickly deliver product for ventilators early in the pandemic.
Founded in 1896, Bico Steel prides itself on being a value-add supplier of steel plate and forged steel blocks. Switching bandsaw blades helped the Michigan company prove its worth when asked to quickly deliver product for ventilators early in the pandemic.
With the right tools and CAM software, toolmakers and mold makers can keep production capacity flexible and will be able to ramp it up by up to 85% as they restart after the coronavirus outbreak. Hoffmann Group USA’s director of milling explains.
Monaghan Tooling put a new spin on rush order when their distributor’s customer required a specialized burnishing tool for a ventilator component – deeply motivated team collaboration took the job from PO to machining floor in under 24 hours. Engineers determined that a flat-face, multi-roller burnishing tool was the ideal way to achieve the necessary fine micro-finish.
Considering where a standard item’s functionality ends, there are endless possibilities. Yet even when budgets, and in some cases physics, get in the way, the only true limit is one’s imagination.
By retaining their hardness at the high temperatures generated by machining heat-resistant super alloys, these ceramic cutting tools achieve much greater speeds over solid-carbide tools for higher productivity that reduces cost per part.
To enable high-volume gear production, Horn USA will develop a carbide milling tool and machining program to produce defined chamfers based on material and gear tooth geometry. The service quickly pays for itself and doesn’t require special workholding.
Unpredictable tool life and slow rough-machining speeds hinder heat-resistant super alloy (HRSA) component productivity. New Secomax CW100 silicon carbide whisker-reinforced ceramic insert formats and geometries successfully tackle materials such as Inconel 718 and Hastelloy.
Sandvik Coromant uses a second-generation chemical vapor deposition (CVD) alumina coating to produce two turning grades – GC4415 and GC4425 – that withstand the extreme temperatures of P25 cutting zones during continuous operations.
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