Anatomy of a High-Feed Insert - insert of cnc machine

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The company standardized parameters for the new tool at an 0.015-ipr feed rate (slightly less than the previous rate), an 0.15-inch cutting depth (double the previous setting) and a speed of 60 sfm (60 percent higher than the previous setting). Despite more than doubling the cutting rate, each insert lasted through the whole part. Cycle time dropped 15 percent. “We would have been happy with just the tool life improvement,” Mr. Dempsey says. “The throughput gain was an unexpected bonus.”

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By changing to a hex-shaped turning insert with a 45-degree lead angle, this shop saved thousands of dollars on a difficult Inconel turning application.

Thanks to a 45-degree lead angle and top-face chipbreaker, the Hex-Turn inserts outlast their predecessors by 69 to 1 while reducing cycle time on the Inconel forging by 15 hours.

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In all, the drop-in retooling saved $1,500 in cycle time and $900 in tooling costs—per part. Cost savings aside, having a secure process for such difficult material enables Scot Forge to bid more confidently on Inconel jobs and to compete more effectively in a high-tech niche. “This improvement enables us to maintain competitive costs for machining Inconel,” Mr. Dempsey says. “Otherwise, we would have been forced to raise prices to cover the excessive cost of tooling and the resulting sub-par productivity.”

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The large Inconel hub requires rough turning and facing to remove about 0.8 inch of material across its entire diameter. As forged, it measures 98 inches in diameter, with a step-down to a 93-inch diameter on one end.

Ingersoll’s Raymon Avery and Scot Forge’s Howard Dempsey stand amid finished Inconel hubs while discussing how to tackle the next tooling issue. Mr. Avery or his colleague Jim Whitley meet regularly with Scot Forge representatives to stay ahead of the curve in production planning.

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When inserts rupture in Inconel, the typical reaction is to “take the load off” the insert by lightening the cut, says Jim Whitley of cutting tool manufacturer Ingersoll (Rockford, Illinois). However, this reaction may be ill-advised. Shops tend to forget that rupture often begins with an edge going dull, which, in turn, overloads the insert to the point of breaking down. “This can happen within a few seconds, so it’s easy to miss wear as the root cause,” he explains. “Assuming that adequate machine horsepower is available, the better answer is to go to a stronger insert with a gentle lead angle and make fewer, deeper passes.”

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Scot Forge is a diversified, employee-owned forging company that has been in business for more than 100 years. It has plants in Clinton, Wisconsin as well as Franklin Park and Spring Grove, Illinois. By customer preference, most of the company’s output is delivered in the forged and rough-machined condition. Howard Dempsey is supervisor of the machine and saw shop at the Clinton plant, a site that runs 24 hours a day, five days a week and houses 200 employees, 50 of whom are machinists. He says the part that prompted the company’s switch to Hex-Turn is just one of a growing number of jobs involving high-temperature alloys, which management has identified as a trend. “We get about six reorders a year for that part, and orders for other Inconel and titanium forgings are rising,” he notes. “So, we decided it was time to develop a best practice for machining them.”

With an eye toward a better standard practice for turning this class of alloy, Mr. Dempsey asked all his tooling vendors for their best ideas and began testing different solutions. Most tools the company tested produced minor improvements at best. The exception was the Hex-Turn, which features a 45-degree lead angle presentation and top-face chipbreakers. Tests showed these inserts could significantly improve cycle time and tool life compared to the square, flat-topped, zero-lead models the shop had been using.

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Scot Forge’s Brandon James indexes a Hex-Turn insert, which will last reliably through the entire machining process on the big Inconel forging. The shop’s previous, square inserts typically failed after just one inch of feed.

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Cutting deeper reduces the number of required passes, which, in turn, reduces the insert’s exposure to the hot, abrasive environment at the cutting edge. However, as Mr. Whitley explains, an insert’s ability to withstand a deeper cut depends on its strength. That’s why—true to its name—the Hex-Turn features a hexagonal geometry, a shape that is second only to round inserts in strength, he says.

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Previously, machining took 105 hours and 40 passes at a feed rate of 0.02 ipr, a cutting depth of 0.075 inch and a speed of 38 sfm. The turning and facing operations required different inserts, and the job typically ate through 69 inserts per part. In fact, tool failure was so prevalent that inserts required indexing every half inch, and the job had to be run 100-percent attended. Moreover, the main failure mode was edge rupture, which renders the insert useless even if some edges go unused. All the while, the operation tied up a large vertical lathe from MAG Giddings & Lewis (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) that the company needed for other work.

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Ingersoll product manager Raymon Avery adds that the other difference-maker is the 45-degree lead angle, which is made intrinsically possible by the insert’s hex shape and chipbreaker top face. This lead angle provides a gentler entry into the work that reduces cutting forces and protects the insert. Meanwhile, the contoured top face breaks up the long, hot, gummy chips characteristic of Inconel alloys and deflects them away from the insert to reduce heat.

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Following Mr. Whitley’s advice paid dividends at Scot Forge, which saved $2,400 per part on one tough Inconel turning application after retooling to Ingersoll’s Hex-Turn inserts and adjusting machining parameters accordingly. Based on its success with that job, the company has standardized on Hex-Turn and those same parameters for rough turning a growing variety of Inconel parts.

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That was the case with Scot Forge’s problem component, a huge Inconel No 7718 hub used in nuclear turbomachinery. This part requires rough turning and facing to remove about 0.8 inch of material across its entire diameter, primarily for truing up. As forged, it measures 98 inches in diameter, with a step-down to a 93-inch diameter on one end.

Anatomy of a High-Feed Insert - insert of cnc machine

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