Cutting benefits of ceramic and cermet tools - kyocera carbide insert grades

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The MD377 Supreme has been developed for the aviation and aerospace industry and is therefore precisely matched to its requirements. The titanium specialist with a central coolant supply represents a benchmark when it comes to machining engine and structural components. It allows for tight tolerance machining and it stands out thanks to its extremely high metal removal rates.

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Tivoly manufactures various types of taps and other tool components. The parts shown here, which are part of a thread-repair kit for taper-seat and gasket-type spark plug assemblies, have been roughed using Seco Duratomic turning inserts. The parts have yet to undergo threading and grinding operations.

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Encouraged by the successful application of the grade in the tap blank operation, the team then targeted an M11 tool steel application running on a Mazak SQT200MS CNC lathe. Machining speed was 300 sfm with an 0.003-ipm feed rate and a 0.05-inch cutting depth. Applying the TP2500 grade, again with the MF5 chipbreaker geometry, increased productivity from 40 to 200 parts per edge. "Few initial process changes were required on any of these operations, and depending on the application we realized tool life improvements ranging from 300 to 1,000 percent," Mr. Stoddard notes.

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The three-prong, crown-shaped MF5 chipbreaker design includes chip deflectors and cooling ditches. According to Seco, these features are beneficial at low depths of cut (between 0.02 and 0.1 inch), while the chipbreaker’s open geometry reduces cutting forces. The manufacturer adds that when used in combination with grade TP2500, tool life often improves by a factor of 10.

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The new inserts’ predictable performance and suitability for a variety of materials contributed to additional cost savings. That’s because the company no longer had to devote significant engineering and programming resources to change cutting parameters for thousands of different parts in small lot quantities. Combined with the cycle time reductions, this reduced per-part costs by 20 percent.

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Designed for general steel turning applications, TP2500’s functionally graded substrate structure is said to increase edge toughness without sacrificing strength for the bulk of the material. The first test at Tivoly involved turning an 0.05-inch standard tap blank in M1 tool steel. For this application, the company had run indexable inserts on a Citizen L25 Swiss screw machine at 600 sfm, a feed rate of 0.005 ipm and a cutting depth of 0.06 inch to achieve 150 parts per cutting edge. Applying the Duratomic-coated TP2500 grade with an MF5 chipbreaker geometry improved the process to 1,500 parts per cutting edge—without changing any of the original cutting parameters.

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This high material removal rate is a credit to the optimised cutting geometry and the five cutting edges that can improve productivity levels and reduce vibration credit to its differential pitch design.

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Seco's Duratomic-grade inserts are said to run faster and longer than competitive models. Key to their performance is a unique texture achieved by manipulating the coating at the atomic level.

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This claim is born out by the experience of Tivoly, a close partner of Seco. This Derby Line, Vermont-based shop recently acquired the capability to cut more aggressively, reduce cycle times, and reduce per-part and tooling costs by 20 and 70 percent, respectively—all without any major changes to its manufacturing processes. Rather, the lion’s share of the credit for these productivity gains went to the first Seco insert grade to incorporate a Duratomic-developed coating. "Without Duratomic, improved cost through cycle time reduction would not have been possible unless we made a big investment in capital equipment and totally revamped our processes," says Scott Gowdy, Tivoly plant manager.

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Tivoly’s TP2500 inserts incorporate the three-prong, crown-shaped MF5 chipbreaker design, which includes chip deflectors and cooling ditches. According to Seco, the chipbreaker can improve tool life by a factor of 10 when used with this grade.

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However, improvements stemming from the use of the new grade didn’t end there. Mr. Mecus offered suggestions on standardizing Tivoly’s carbide tools in order to reduce the large number of different inserts it kept in inventory. As a result, annual consumption of turning inserts decreased from 751,200 to 1,252. This reduced spending on perishable tooling by approximately 70 percent.

The MB45 series is designed to deliver the low cutting force benefits of positive inserts and the fracture resistance of negative inserts.

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From a process security perspective, both the MC377 and MD377 are available with plain cylindrical shank across all diameters but from 16mm to 25mm diameter there is also the option of a cylindrical shank with clamping flat to DIN6535 HB to prevent tool pull out and increase stability. In addition to the standard ranges with cutting lengths up to 2XD, Walter also offers custom-designed tools via the Xpress service with short delivery times.

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Exchanging turning inserts for Seco’s Duratomic-coated grade TP2500 helped this manufacturer reduce per-part and perishable tooling costs by 20 and 70 percent, respectively.

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Another key to success, however, is a focus on partnerships with both customers and suppliers—suppliers like Seco, which provides more than 50 percent of the company’s cutting tool needs. In 2006, as part of its commitment to progress, Tivoly began a formal process-improvement/cost-reduction initiative in collaboration with Seco technical specialist Joe Mecus and Seco distributor Matt Murray of Blanchard Industrial Supplies. The two visited Tivoly weekly and spearheaded monthly meetings between the two companies to assess machining operations and decide where productivity gains or cost savings could be achieved most easily.

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Though most frequently used for diameter measurements, an air plug and platen can be readily configured to measure perpendicularity.

The impressive new MC377 end mill without corner radii is available in diameters of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12mm whilst the MC377 with corner radii is offered with a 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20 and 25mm diameter with the 2mm tool having a 3-flute geometry and all other diameters having 4-flutes.

That said, perishable tooling represented only a small piece of the production cost pie. The company realized greater benefits through cycle time reductions. Although initial tests used the same feeds, speeds and cutting depths as previous tools, the company soon found that the Duratomic-coated TP2500 grade enabled it to overcome previous limitations on these parameters in some applications. Cutting more aggressively—often to the point of maxing out the capability of a given machine—reduced cycle time on roughing operations by 50 to 80 percent, approaching speeds ranging to 1,500 sfm in tool steel operations that previously ran within the 500 to 700 sfm range.

Few companies can trace their heritage as far back as Tivoly, which got its start manufacturing a cutter designed to restore worn wagon axles in 1880. The company evolved into part of the Union Butterfield Corporation until it was sold to French-owned Tivoly Inc. in 1989. Today, its product range includes hand taps, production taps, performance taps, application taps, carbide taps, specials, reamers and drills, many of which are private-labeled for other cutting tool manufacturers. The company says one key to its corporate longevity is a focus on progress that incorporates a commitment to continous improvement and a recognition that change is necessary and inevitable.

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In contrast, the MC377 is a four-flute titanium end mill that is also suitable for ISO P and M material designations. This diversity is credit to a tough AlCrN coating that works with Walter’s WK40EA substrate that makes the MC377 suitable for steel, stainless as well as titanium alloys. With regards to the MD377, the tool life and performance is assured with the latest Walter-exclusive AlTiN+ZrN (WTZ) coating with HIPIMS technology.

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Although advancements in cutting tool technology typically have been incremental, one cutting tool manufacturer says its custom methodology for developing coatings represents a bigger change than the typical new grade or geometry. While toughness and wear resistance are usually considered diametrically opposed, the Duratomic coating process developed by Seco Tools (Troy, Michigan) is said to improve both properties simultaneously. The result? Inserts with both improved cutting capability and prolonged tool life, the company says.

Misapplication of these important CNC features will result in wasted time, wasted or duplicated effort and/or wasted material.

The MD377 Supreme is available with a range of corner radii in diameters of 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20 and 25mm with a flute length of 13mm on the 6mm diameter tool ranging up to 45mm on the 25mm tool with each tool designed with a back radius into a necked diameter for clearance when machining deep cavities.

At the time, Seco had just announced its first Duratomic-developed coating for grade TP2500. "Matt offered us free samples and explained to us how the Duratomic process actually alters the aluminum oxide coating at an atomic level, changing the grain direction to make it more wear resistant," says Roger Stoddard, Tivoly’s design/applications engineer. (For more information about the Duratomic process, link to the article "Atomic-Level Coating Manipulation Adds Durability" under "editor's picks" at the top right of the page).

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