Editorial, News, and Products
FFG Celebrates Grand Opening of Technology Center
The event featured live demonstrations of CNC equipment and vertical/horizontal milling and turning solutions for high-speed, die/mold, heavy duty, multi-axis, multitasking and high-volume machining solutions across various FFG brands.
Kennametal Drill Fix PRO Offers Extended Application Range
The Drill Fix PRO is designed for extended tool life and smooth drilling at high metal removal rates, with outboard inserts that feature a wiper geometry for smoother surface finishes and larger coolant channels for high-volume flow.
Kennametal Indexable Milling Grades for Cast Iron Alloys
The company says the new grades offer higher wear resistance and longer tool life, increasing productivity in cast iron and compacted graphite cast iron machining.
Kennametal Fix8 Heavy-Duty Turning System for Maximum Metal Removal
This system is designed to cover a range of applications, including turning and facing, smooth surfaces, interrupted and heavily interrupted cuts.
Kennametal’s HPX Drill Designed for Increased Tool Life, Productivity
Solid carbide drill for steel applications has unique point design and multiphase coating to last longer, generate lower forces and make better holes.
Kennametal Boring System Simplifies Precision Adjustment
Kennametal’s digital-ready fine boring tools are easy-to-use for more productive, predictable and accurate boring.
Emuge Corp. Appoints Scott Lowe as National Accounts Manager
Emuge names new national accounts manager for the U.S. and Canada.
Tooling System Reduces Setup Time So Shop Stays Competitive
Turret adapted clamping units and quick-change tooling systems have helped a company use its new turning centers more effectively, so it can win new business in a competitive environment.
KBH10 Hard Turning Inserts Provide Rxtreme Wear Resistance
Kennametal Inc.’s KBH10 polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PcBN) hard turning inserts provide wear resistance needed to turn hardened metals up to 65Rc, especially where very fine surface finishes are required.
Turret-Adapted Clamping Unit Provides High Clamping Forces
In place of the standard turret tooling available on CNC lathes, the KM product line of turret-adapted clamping units from Kennametal and EWS Tool is designed to improve shopfloor efficiency.
KNS Cutter Platform Reduces Waste
Kennametal’s KNS slotting platform can be used across a range of cutting applications, including by automakers, equipment manufacturers and power generation and electronics companies.
KenTIP FS Competes with Range of Solid Carbide Drills
Kennametal’s KenTIP FS is a 6-mm to 26-mm, 1.5 to 12 × D modular drill that’s designed for ease of use and producing good hole quality. It can compete with solid carbide drills across a range of materials, according to the company.
Mastercam and Kennametal Partner to Provide Tool Automation
CNC Software Inc., developers of Mastercam, has partnered with Kennametal Inc. to provide customers with the ability to import tool assemblies from NOVO directly into Mastercam 2018, allowing Mastercam customers to save time searching and building 3D tool assemblies.
Indexable Milling Grade Provides Thermal Fatigue Resistance
Kennametal’s KCSM40 indexable milling grade has an cobalt binder that provides thermal fatigue resistance and a proprietary AlTiN/TiN coating that enhances the wear resistance at the cutting edge.
The Next Step in Setup Reduction
Quick-change modular tooling is a clear way to increase productivity, shorten setup time and generally improve the bottom line for job shops and large manufacturers alike.
Digital Tool Management Optimizes Shop Productivity
Although new methods for digital access to information are constantly being developed, the principle behind these systems is that every employee should have access to tool data.
Kennametal Expands Modular Tooling Line
A new partnership between Kennametal and EWS Tool Technologies will work toward making driven tool setup both fast and accurate.
‘Someday’ has a Happy Ending
After discussing various aerospace machining issues, the Kennametal representative turned Stellar Precision Components on to a solid ceramic end mill for difficult, nickel-based alloys often found in aerospace.
Kennametal Supports a Good Cause
Charitable corporate giving can make a difference in the local community as well as the world at large. Here’s an example of one company that’s committed to giving back.
Ceramic End Mills Helps Shop Meet Delivery Date
Stellar delivered the parts on time with zero scrap and is now quoting a second, even larger order.
Making the Cut
As this short case study illustrates, Kennametal’s grooving and cutoff tools provide more precise chip control and extended tool life.
Grooving, Cutoff and Multidirectional Turning
This single-sided tool is designed to handle a range of applications, including cutoff, grooving, deep grooving, face grooving, side turning and profiling, in a single platform, simplifying the tooling selection process.
Rethinking Manufacturing with Digital Knowledge
As many thousands of machinists make their way toward well-earned retirements, how many recognize how much those jobs have shifted toward acquiring, using and storing machining knowledge digitally?
Improve Productivity with Digital Tooling Data
This system seamlessly interfaces cloud-enabled digital tooling data and intelligence with production, inventory, and e-commerce to optimize shop productivity.
A Tool for Finding Tools
Novo is an online resource that supplies optimal feed and speed recommendations and more.
Kennametal and Sumitomo Electric Agree
These two signed a licensing agreement under which Sumitomo Electric will provide and support Kennametal’s KM4X spindle solution to its customers globally.
PM News, June 2011
Kennametal Names New V.P for Global Product ManagementKennametal Inc. has appointed Gretchen W.
Reduce Waste And Increase Efficiency With Carbide Recycling
As a cost-saving measure and to comply with environmental considerations, many shops turn to recycling programs for scrap and worn tooling. With increasing consumption of non-renewable raw materials and to help counteract the effects of high carbide prices, some manufacturers are providing recycling programs to help companies increase productivity and efficiency.
Quick-Change Tooling For Swiss-Style Machines
The productivity of new Swiss-style machines has increased in recent years as faster spindles, more rigid bases and improved controls have made it possible to dramatically increase metal removal rate. But while cycle times have been substantially reduced, the time required to change cutting tools has stayed largely the same.
Courses Teach Solution For Swiss Machining
Close confines found in Swiss-type machines make tool changes time consuming. A new quick-change system is helping reduce this problem.
JIT Driving New Cutting Tool Solutions
It's increasingly rare that shops can use "set it" and "forget it" tooling schemes for screw machine production runs. Today's schedules require more frequent changeover. Quick-change cutting tools, coupled with more advanced tool materials, are helping shops remain productive and competitive.