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• Maximize spindle speed, axial depth of cut and radial depth of cut. Seek to push all these parameters as high as the performance of the cut will permit.

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A 4,000-rpm machining center can be a productive machine for milling aluminum. Boeing’s machining research and technology team in St. Louis says these are the keys to obtaining the most productivity when spindle rpm is a constraint:

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Under its joint sales cooperation with Austrian ISO tooling company Boehlerit, German cutting tool manufacturer, Horn is offering customers the former's new Quattrotec tool system. Due to the special design, four machining operations can be performed with low vibration using just one tool – drilling into solid material (including off-centre), boring, facing and longitudinal turning. Boehlerit Quattrotec turning-drilling tools are now available from Horn The intelligent machining solution has even better performance than Boehlerit's Pentatec turning-drilling tool, which replaced up to five ISO tools and reduced machining times by up to 30 percent by reducing idle times and tool changes. Pockets in the tool magazine are also saved. Quattrotec allows users to reduce costs across a wider range of metals. Material groups that may be machined include low and high alloy steels, stainless steels, cast irons, wrought and cast aluminium alloys as well as copper and its alloys bronze and brass. The tool programme comprises diameters of 10, 12, 16. 18, 20 and 25mm. Substrates are supplied in a range of hardnesses, combined with either a wear-resistant CVD (chemical vapour deposition) coating or a universal PVD (physical vapour deposition) coating. The Easy Safe System is a particular advantage of the tool, as a groove on the underside of the indexable insert ensures that it can be installed in the insert seat quickly and precisely without any possibility of error. www.phorn.co.uk

Large flute counts can permit a high feed rate despite a low spindle speed. Boeing uses a 10-flute tool like this for finishing ribs at axial and radial cutting depths ranging up to 1 inch and 0.3 inch, respectively. The tool doesn’t perform well in internal corners, though, so the corners have to be machined before this tool is used.

“High feed” milling tools take advantage of axial chip thinning to achieve a high feed rate even at relatively low spindle speeds.

The caveat with this tool (and with low speed machining of aircraft components in general) is that the internal corners of the part have to be machined first. Numerous internal corners are typical of aircraft structural members, which often consist of many pockets. For a finishing tool milling with a light radial depth of cut, the radial engagement dramatically increases when the tool enters a corner. Therefore, for the protection of both tool and workpiece, the material needs to be machined out of the corners (using some different type of tool) before these fast finishing passes are run.

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One final tool that also deserves consideration is a plunge roughing mill. Few shops would consider such a tool for aluminum. Most instead see plunge roughing as a technique for hard metals. However, when low spindle speed is a process constraint, plunge roughing might be the most productive approach, even in the soft material. The choice comes down to the shape of the pocket—specifically how much material plunging would leave behind in need of follow-up machining. Plunge roughing would likely make no sense if high spindle speed was available, Boeing says. However, given a low speed machine, this technique might be an element of the process that realizes the highest productivity.

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Each tool setting technique has merit, and it depends on where you are as a shop and the type of work you do, as cost and efficiency all come into play.

The NeoMill-Alu-QBig indexable insert milling cutter from Mapal stands for top performance in high-volume milling of aluminium. The tool manufacturer thus offers a very economical solution for use on high-performance machines, such as those found primarily in the aerospace industry.

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• Maximize horsepower! In roughing, aim to take advantage of as much of the spindle’s horsepower as possible.

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One part in particular illustrates this. The aluminum part in the photo to the right had been produced through high speed machining on a large machining center at Boeing—a machine capable of 24,000 rpm. But that machine was over-scheduled, creating pressure to make the part some other way. A machining center capable of 4,000 rpm happened to be available.

The Boeing team developed a process for making maximum use of the capabilities of this lower-speed machine, so that this machine alone could produce the part efficiently. In doing so, the team also refined an approach to low speed machining that it has since helped various suppliers adopt. The process involves roughing with high feed mills, as well as with solid carbide end mills capable of heavy depths of cut and chip loads. The process also involves finishing features rapidly using high-flute-count end mills.

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This tool’s chip clearance enabled it to achieve a dramatically higher metal removal rate than a standard tool for roughing aluminum. Low spindle speeds make it important to experiment with roughing tools in order to find one that can make full use of the machine’s horsepower.

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Though it won’t replace high speed machining, Boeing sees “low speed machining” as a viable supplement to higher-rpm machines. Using new tools and techniques, a shop’s lower-rpm machining centers can realize much more of their potential productivity in milling aluminum aircraft parts.

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Thoughtful considerations will set you on a shortened path to the most optimized solution once cutter meets metal.

Quattrotec allows users to reduce costs across a wider range of metals. Material groups that may be machined include low and high alloy steels, stainless steels, cast irons, wrought and cast aluminium alloys as well as copper and its alloys bronze and brass. The tool programme comprises diameters of 10, 12, 16. 18, 20 and 25mm.

Thoughtful considerations will set you on a shortened path to the most optimized solution once cutter meets metal.

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• Use high chip loads in roughing. With solid carbide end mills in aluminum, chip loads of at least 0.010 inch per tooth are realistic. High feed mills can permit chip loads of 0.050 inch per tooth.

For finishing, the best tool choice is different. An end mill with a large number of flutes can achieve a productive inch-per-minute feed rate at low spindle speeds. The 10-flute milling tool shown on the facing page is a standard tool Boeing recommends for finishing applications in titanium. The tool works efficiently for finishing passes in aluminum as well. In fact, in aluminum, the 1-inch diameter tool can be run at a radial immersion of 0.3 inch with an axial depth of cut of 1 inch—parameters that wouldn’t be considered in titanium.

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Due to the special design, four machining operations can be performed with low vibration using just one tool – drilling into solid material (including off-centre), boring, facing and longitudinal turning.

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The phrase “high speed machining” emphasizes the word “speed,” but running at a high spindle speed has never been the primary goal. High speed machining aims instead just to leverage spindle speed—realizing a high metal removal rate within a single milling cycle that brings the raw workpiece as close to being a completed part as possible. The completed part and the high metal removal rate are the two goals. Speed is only the means—and speed is not even the only means for bringing these two goals together.

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

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When it comes to utilizing the spindle’s power, there is a lot of headroom at the upper limits, provided it’s in short bursts. Be mindful of your time at these loads so you don’t stall out.

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Incremental mode can be more advantageous when programming sculptured surfaces or for certain hole-machining canned cycle applications.

Other types of tools are also likely to be valuable. Chief among these are high feed mills, Boeing says. The last photo above—a still from Boeing video footage under "Editor Picks" at right—shows a high feed milling tool from Iscar. “High feed” tools use a cutting edge geometry that takes advantage of axial chip thinning to achieve a higher feed rate than a comparable tool with a more standard geometry would be able to realize. When roughing volumes are large enough to permit this type of tool, Mr. Stern says the high feed mill can be a reliable way to achieve 50 to 60 cubic inches per minute, even when the spindle speed is low.

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In roughing, the key is to make as much use as possible of the machine’s available horsepower. On a machine where high spindle speed is not available, this horsepower provides the alternate means to high productivity.

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For many suppliers, this is significant. Many don’t have a high-rpm machining center, let alone enough of the kind of work that could justify one. Many others face overscheduling of high speed machines, while lower-speed machines in the shop remain available. By helping shops increase productivity at all speed levels, the Boeing team hopes to expand capacity throughout the company’s supply chain.

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Over the past several years, refinements in cutting tool technology have enabled shops to achieve high metal removal rates at lower spindle speeds as well. As a result, a Boeing team in St. Louis, Missouri that teaches high speed machining techniques to Boeing suppliers now also teaches lower-rpm techniques—often for shops that are lacking in high speed capacity. For Boeing, this newer set of techniques goes by the deceptively humble label of “low speed machining,” a term that actually entails a high level of productivity.

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Run time for the part had been 61 minutes. This was the real time for the high speed machining cycle, with tool changes and acceleration/deceleration included.

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Roughing and finishing are distinctions that can become unnecessary in high speed machining of aircraft components, because machining is done through precise heavy cuts that both hog out material and achieve the final dimensions. However, low speed machining requires a return to roughing and finishing, Boeing says. That’s because roughing is likely to entail high-horsepower cuts that aren’t appropriate for achieving the final dimensional tolerances of the part’s features.

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Thoughtful considerations will set you on a shortened path to the most optimized solution once cutter meets metal.

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Substrates are supplied in a range of hardnesses, combined with either a wear-resistant CVD (chemical vapour deposition) coating or a universal PVD (physical vapour deposition) coating. The Easy Safe System is a particular advantage of the tool, as a groove on the underside of the indexable insert ensures that it can be installed in the insert seat quickly and precisely without any possibility of error.

The intelligent machining solution has even better performance than Boehlerit's Pentatec turning-drilling tool, which replaced up to five ISO tools and reduced machining times by up to 30 percent by reducing idle times and tool changes. Pockets in the tool magazine are also saved.

Making the most of the horsepower might involve experimenting with different choices in tools. On the part mentioned previously, the Boeing team initially applied a standard roughing end mill for aluminum. The tool permitted a maximum metal removal rate of 6.3 cubic inches per minute, taking advantage of only 2 hp. By contrast, a different tool, the SwiftCarb rougher shown on this page, enabled the machine to employ 14.5 hp in this cut—partly because of the chip clearance provided by the shredding effect of the flute design. The corresponding metal removal rate with this tool was 45 cubic inches per minute.

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Boeing engineer Eric Stern is a member of the St. Louis machining team, which is part of the company’s Research and Technology Group. He stresses that high speed machining is still preferable. Typically HSM will be more productive, often markedly so. Even the high speed cycle above probably would have clocked better than 61 minutes if its programming and other aspects of the process had received as much analysis as the low speed process ultimately did. However, this time served as the accepted benchmark—and the productivity of low speed machining came respectably close.

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When it comes to utilizing the spindle’s power, there is a lot of headroom at the upper limits, provided it’s in short bursts. Be mindful of your time at these loads so you don’t stall out.

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

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