Tool companies propose five new rules for cutting tools

In the metal cutting industry, there is no choice but to adopt advanced technologies. The demand for processing in the future is getting bigger and bigger. Only advanced processing technologies can meet these requirements.

In response to changing production requirements and increasingly challenging workpiece materials, cutting tool technology is rapidly developing. Today's mechanical processing plants need to look at their cutting tools and tool suppliers in a different way from the past.

Chris Mills, a project manager responsible for aviation tool development at Sandvik Coromant, points out that taking aerospace manufacturing as an example, in order to meet the industry's manufacturing needs for the next 20 years, the manufacturing process capacity needs to be doubled on an existing basis. How can we do this? Can we simply increase the number of processing machines by a factor of 2 while maintaining the current level of processing? This is almost impossible. Increasing the number of state-of-the-art machine tools means that the same proportion of machine operators must be added. This is hard to imagine because it is very difficult for today's machine shops to hire enough qualified workers to operate the machine. Therefore, the need to increase processing capacity by a factor of two must be met through technological advancement, that is, to use the existing number of cutters to complete more work.

So where did these technological advancements come from? Of course, machine tools are included, and they are getting faster and faster with higher accuracy. However, the artifacts themselves are not developing in the same gradual manner. They are basically changing constantly. Nowadays, not only are the workpieces being machined more and more demanding in terms of accuracy, delivery time and quality, but they are increasingly being manufactured using difficult-to-machine materials that many machining shops have never encountered before. These materials include titanium alloys, nickel-base alloys, and vermicular cast iron (CGI), in addition to various engineering composites (in more and more applications, composites are replacing metal materials). In other words, the speed and intensity of workpiece development now exceed that of the machine tools used to cut them. In order to make up for the gap between the machine tool and the workpiece and to match the processing capacity with the processing requirements, the most important technological advancement in today's metal cutting industry will come from cutting tools.

The role of cutting tools - and tool suppliers - is changing more and more quickly and beyond any other element of the process. In fact, the cutting tool changes so great that any foreseeing mechanical processing plant now needs to reassess its concept of cutting tools. They not only need to study how to select a specific tool, but also need to re-examine the basic concepts that affect the entire workshop tool application. Of these core concepts, some are obsolete today because the rules of cutting tools have changed.

Recently, three companies related to cutting tools have provided some insights into how today's machining shops need to think about tool application problems in different ways. These companies include: 1 Diamond Innovations (Diamond Innovations): a world-leading supplier of cubic boron nitride (CBN) and polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tooling materials; 2 Precision Dormer: highly efficient by both companies A combination of drilling tools and thread cutting tools companies; 3 Sandvik Coromant: the world's No. 1 supplier of metal cutting tools.

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