Forming tools are expensive, often made from carbide and tool steel. Carbide grinding is often the first choice today because customer requirements have increased and continue to increase in terms of complexity, dimensional accuracy and reproducibility. Apart from that, production must also be significantly more economical.

The forming process is a question of the application of force. A tool is pressed into the source material with massive force until the desired profile is formed. Forming tools are subject to strong dynamic stress and high levels of wear, especially at certain critical features of the forming tool. If wear and tear can be significantly reduced and service life extended, this will have a direct impact on tooling costs.

Highlights at IMTS include: 

The Multigrind CU is designed and built with the highest level of rigidity, stability and accuracy, and this is the perfect platform for machining of precision forming tools. All machine axes are aligned symmetrically, and their supports are partially cast into the mineral composite machine base. Overhangs of force, vibrations and thermal expansion, which can have a negative impact on the grinding process, are reduced to a minimum. This is the perfect basis for high cutting performance.

Everything is possible: producing contours, grinding squares, interpolating run-out, grinding alignment surfaces, tip radius and chamfers - even complex forming tools can be machined in just one clamping with the well-known Haas Multigrind precision.

With Multigrind Horizon, Haas reconceptualized grinding software from the ground up. The result is software that thinks along with you instead of telling you what you can do and transforms high-tech grinding machines into real experts. Horizon helps you to program, grind and reproduce your workpiece – in a faster and more flexible manner.

The new simulation software from Haas is not simulation software at all: Multigrind Styx shows pixels directly and with maximum precision. This is how simulation becomes visualization – and grinding processes can be completely mapped in advance: without surfaces and without borders, without wasting time and material, and without stress. And thanks to the cloud-based solution, you get more performance with less computing power.

Haas will be exhibiting in the North Hall, Booth #237505.

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