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Tool Life

PRODUCT NEWS | 2025-02-27

Star Cutter Offers Advanced FLX Machine with NUM CNC Control System

Star Cutter Company launched the FLX machine in 2024, powered by NUM’s advanced FlexiumPro CNC control system with NUMROTO software to easily program all kinds of different tools. This significant advancement underscores Star Cutter’s commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions for high-volume tool manufacturers, providing an enhanced platform for automated, high-precision manufacturing.

PRODUCT NEWS | 2025-02-27

Seco Tools Releases Latest Helical Milling Cutter

The new Seco LN4-11 Helical Milling Cutter provides up to three times longer tool life per edge and boosts productivity to achieve the lowest cost per part. The cutter ensures high material removal rates in applications requiring a helical milling cutter 32 – 63 mm in diameter.

PRODUCT NEWS | 2025-02-27

Kennametal Meets Small Parts Machining Demands

Machining small parts calls for high precision, tight tolerances and excellent surface finishes. Kennametal’s TopSwiss platform is designed to meet these demands across industries like medical, aerospace and defense, automotive and general engineering.

VIDEO | 2024-05-21

Star SU and Neher PCD Reconditioning

Neher’s comprehensive line of diamond tools, including finish reamers, combination tools and PCD/CBN inserts, compliments Star SU’s cutting tool offering to provide a full-service turnkey solution.  

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-09-01

Hyperion to Showcase New Materials and Services at IMTS 2022

Hyperion Materials & Technologies manufactures hard and super-hard materials for a wide variety of industries and applications, including cemented carbide blanks for gear cutting and hobbing. Hyperion will showcase its gear tool blanks and many other products and manufacturing solutions at IMTS 2022, Sept. 12 to 17 in Chicago.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-08-22

Ceratizit Moves U.S. Headquarters

To centralize operations and continue to better serve its customers, tooling supplier Ceratizit USA, Inc. has shifted its official U.S. Headquarters from Warren, Michigan, to the company’s Schaumburg, Illinois, facility location. Ceratizit acquired the Schaumburg facility when it absorbed the Komet tooling brand name and product line under the Ceratizit Group umbrella.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-08-19

Haas Schleifmaschinen Focuses on High Performance at IMTS 2022

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.

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INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-08-17

Sandvik Coromant Wins Best Plant Award

Sandvik Coromant, has earned the 2022 IndustryWeek Best Plants Award for its Westminster, South Carolina, production site. The award is given to North American manufacturing plants that lead their industries in outstanding operational excellence, customer service and employee engagement.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-08-03

Widia Expands Turning Portfolio

Widia has added an AL Geometry to its ISO turning portfolio, strengthening its broad offering of affordable tooling solutions for small to medium sized machine shops, machining aluminum and non-ferrous materials. The AL Geometry insert is offered in two grades for increased machining versatility: an uncoated microfine carbide WU10HT grade and the PVD AlTiN coated grade, WU05PT. Each grade is available in all popular styles, including C, D, R, T, and V inserts to increase customer tooling options.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-07-28

Big Daishowa Highlights Four Workholding Tips

Big Daishowa specializes in modular workholding that provides flexibility, efficiency and functionality. UNILOCK zero-point workholding provides value through versatile solutions that are simple to integrate into existing machinery and setups. Here, the company examines four tips for choosing the right workholding device.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-07-19

Blaser Swisslube Offers Metalworking Fluids at IMTS 2022

Blaser Swisslube returns to IMTS 2022 with a line-up of new metalworking fluids and a team of experts with diverse industry and applications experience. Visit Blaser at IMTS to learn how metalworking fluids, often thought of as a commodity, can be leveraged as a strategic tool in the manufacturing process. 

PRODUCT NEWS | 2022-07-18

Guill Offers Internal Spline Tool for Aerospace Applications

Guill Tool, a growing supplier of components to the global aerospace industry, has announced the production of a new internal spline tool made of anodized carbon steel. 

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-07-11

Star Cutter Increases Commitment to Alpena Community College Center for Manufacturing Excellence

Star Cutter Company has announced that it will be continuing its support of Alpena Community College’s manufacturing programs through increased monetary and equipment donations to the college. The donations will be supplied over a two-year period of time, helping to bring state-of-the art manufacturing equipment, such as grinding machines and optical comparators, to the center for hands-on training opportunities.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-07-05

Star Cutter to Highlight NXT Tool Grinder at IMTS 2022

Star Cutter Company will be displaying its newest generation automated NXT 5-axis tool grinder in Booth #237013 at IMTS 2022 featuring detailed graphics that enable visitors to take a self-guided tour of the machine, which will be shadow grinding during the show. The display system will feature the 28 kW spindle option and four-station wheel change capability. It will be equipped with a robot loader and flat blade/insert clamping fixture for live demonstration of automated production. Videos to showcase tooling for form cutters, boring bars and medical hip rasps will also be on display.

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INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-06-27

Ceratizit Adds Midwest Territory Sales Engineers

With the addition of two new sales engineers in the company’s Midwest Territory, Ceratizit USA looks to continue its double-digit growth while continuing to support and optimize customer tooling and machining processes.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-05-17

Sandvik Coromant appoints two new members to its management team

Sandvik Coromant has appointed two new members to its management group. Michael Eneberg began his new role as vice president and head of global sales on May 1, 2022, while Nicolas Dellachiesa will join as head of merger and acquisitions (M&A) in June. Reporting to Sandvik Coromant President, Helen Blomqvist, both Eneberg and Dellachiesa will play vital roles in driving the company’s global growth forward.

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-05-16

Seco Supports Medical Innovation With Virtual Event and Exclusive Content

Seco and its technical partners will host the company’s second Medical Inspiration Through Innovation (ITI) virtual event on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in German and on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in English and Mandarin. 

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-04-29

Seco Green Fund Achieves Sustainability Goals for Over a Decade

To ensure their contribution to reducing climate change and negative environmental impact, Seco Tools launched the Green Investment Fund in 2012. Since then, the Green Fund has supported the investment of a diversity of sustainable projects which have reduced the environmental impact of the company’s operations.

PRODUCT NEWS | 2022-04-28

SMW Autoblok Features Air Chuck with Extending Stroke Range

SMW Autoblok presents the BB-FZA2G pneumatic 3+3 sequencing air chuck featuring an extended stroke clamping range and three self-centering jaws with axial adjustment.

PRODUCT NEWS | 2022-04-26

Park Engineering Upgrades Equipment with LK Metrology

Park Engineering has significantly increased the size of parts it can machine and subsequently measure on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM).

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-04-22

Sandvik Coromant Examines Shift to Electric Vehicles

The transition to EVs will lower transport emissions, and adoption can be accelerated by increasing their efficiency. EVs that take advantage of aluminum components can travel further per charge, helping to overcome range anxiety. Automotive manufacturers who select machining tools optimized for aluminum will be able to produce high-quality aluminum EV components ― helping to support the shift to greener travel.

PRODUCT NEWS | 2022-04-22

Seco Milling Cutters Reduce Tooling Inventory Costs

Manufacturers who look for versatility and precision in machining can pair up Seco Turbo 16 square shoulder milling cutters and Helical Turbo 16 milling cutters to reduce tooling inventories and costs. Both series offer high material removal rates in steel, stainless steel, cast iron, non-ferrous metals, superalloys and titanium. 

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2022-01-21

Rego-Fix Acquires GEWITEC

Rego-Fix AG has signed an agreement to acquire the majority equity interests of the Swiss based company GEWITEC AG. GEWITEC is an establi...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2021-10-12

Rego-Fix Launches 3D-EdgeMaster

Rego-Fix recently announced the development of an innovative new 3D-EdgeMaster precision centering device product line. Continuing the Re...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2021-05-14

Advantages of Chamfering

State-of-the-Art Chamfer Cutting Technologies for Cylindrical Gears
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2021-04-26

ANCA Provides Complete Skiving Cutter Solution for EV Transmissions

ANCA's TX and MX machines offer skiving cutter sharpening

INDUSTRY NEWS | 2020-06-17

Hoffmann Group Taps WFL Millturn to Test and Optimize Tools

Pushed to the Maximum

With over 4,000 employees and an extensive range of tools, operating equipment and personal protec...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2018-11-15

Beautiful on the Inside

Higher Quality Internal Gears

GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2018-02-01

Understanding Spur Gears

Spur gears have been around “forever.” That ancient astronomical device recovered from the Mediterranean Sea a few years ago shows the antiquity an...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2017-08-08

WZL Gear Conference Highlights Latest Technology

Liebherr Gear Technology Inc. recently hosted the 7th WZL Gear Conference in the USA 2017 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This two-day program o...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2017-06-13

Mastercam 2018 Focuses on Efficiency and Speed

Mastercam 2018 was recently introduced at EASTEC where attendees were impressed with the tools the software has available to get parts off...
GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2017-02-16

Lowering That Overhead, Part II

How many of you have any idea what your company spends on perishable tooling? Working for small companies with tight wad owners perhaps made me mor...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2016-03-23

Suhner Rego-Fix reCool Directly Applies Coolant-Lubricant Mix to Cutting Edge, Improves Tool Life

Rego-Fix has launched a cost-effective and efficient attachment for the application of coolant-lubrication liquids through a tool based o...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2016-03-04

Walter Parting Blade Adaptors Improve Tool Life

Walter has introduced new parting blade adaptors for BMT/DO machines that ensure precision cooling of both the insert and the parting bla...
PRODUCT NEWS | 2015-09-01

Product News

News about New Products
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2015-08-25

Walter Cut Grooving Tool Delivers Improved Chip Control and Tool Life

Walter recently introduced the Walter Cut G1011-P, a new grooving tool that can enhance surface quality, extend tool life, and improve pr...
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2015-07-13

Cimcool Cimperial 861 Metalworking Fluid Increases Tool Life and Provides Superior Lubricity

Cimcool recently announced the release of Cimperial 861 with InSol technology, a hybrid lubricity, semi-synthetic metalworking fluid, whi...
TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2015-07-01

I Like Big Gears and I Cannot Lie!

Many years ago, when asked how the five-meter gear was checked, the quality manager responded, “When they’re that big, they’re never bad!” That may have been the attitude and practice in the past, but it no longer serves the manufacturer nor the customer. Requirements have been evolving steadily, requiring gears to perform better and last longer.
INDUSTRY NEWS | 2015-06-17

Emuge EF Series Drills Incorporate Special Geometry for Faster Penetration and Longer Tool Life

Emuge Corp. recently announced the North American debut of its line of high-performance solid carbide drills. The new Emuge EF series dri...
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2015-01-01

Getting in Gear with the Chain of Innovations

At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, so-called mechanics were tasked with devising the precise methods that would make mass production possible. The result was the first generation of machine tools, which in turn required improved tooling and production methods.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2014-09-01

Gear Manufacturer Benefits from CAM Initiatives and Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Multiple CAM initiatives at Snyder Industries are improving safety, quality and productivity for parts ranging from 50 to 5,000 lbs.
ASK THE EXPERT | 2014-08-01

Importance of Contact Pattern in Assembly of Bevel vs Cylindrical Gears

Why is there so much emphasis on the tooth contact pattern for bevel gears in the assembled condition and not so for cylindrical gears, etc?
GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2014-04-22

Different Consequences

[starbox] In the most recent issue of Gear Technology, the Publisher’s Page recounts the inaugural issue’s coverage of “transformative ...
GEAR TALK WITH CHUCK | 2014-03-03

Time Flies When You Are Making Gears

[starbox] On Saturday I began my 44th year in the gear industry. I remember way too many details of my first day as a drafting apprentice at the...
TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2011-08-01

Manufacturing Method of Large-Sized Spiral Bevel Gears in Cyclo-Palloid System Using Multi-Axis Control and Multi-Tasking Machine Tool

In this article, the authors calculated the numerical coordinates on the tooth surfaces of spiral bevel gears and then modeled the tooth profiles using a 3-D CAD system. They then manufactured the large-sized spiral bevel gears based on a CAM process using multi-axis control and multi-tasking machine tooling. The real tooth surfaces were measured using a coordinate measuring machine and the tooth flank form errors were detected using the measured coordinates. Moreover, the gears were meshed with each other and the tooth contact patterns were investigated. As a result, the validity of this manufacturing method was confirmed.
TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2010-05-01

Software-Based Process Design in Gear Finish Hobbing

In this paper, the potential for geometrical cutting simulations - via penetration calculation to analyze and predict tool wear as well as to prolong tool life - is shown by means of gear finish hobbing. Typical profile angle deviations that occur with increasing tool wear are discussed. Finally, an approach is presented here to attain improved profile accuracy over the whole tool life of the finishing hob.
TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2009-03-01

Hob Tool Life Technology Update

The method of cutting teeth on a cylindrical gear by the hobbing process has been in existence since the late 1800s. Advances have been made over the years in both the machines and the cutting tools used in the process. This paper will examine hob tool life and the many variables that affect it. The paper will cover the state-of-the-art cutting tool materials and coatings, hob tool design characteristics, process speeds and feeds, hob shifting strategies, wear characteristics, etc. The paper will also discuss the use of a common denominator method for evaluating hob tool life in terms of meters (or inches) per hob tooth as an alternative to tool life expressed in parts per sharpening.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 2009-01-01

Big Gears - High Standards, High Profits

Natural resources—minerals, coal, oil, agricultural products, etc.—are the blessings that Mother Earth confers upon the nations of the world. But it takes unnaturally large gears to extract them.
EVENTS | 2008-11-01

Events

The complete Events section from the November/December 2008 issue of Gear Technology
TECHNICAL ARTICLES | 2006-05-01

Tool Life and Productivity Improvement Through Cutting Parameter Setting and Tool Design in Dry High-Speed Bevel Gear Tooth Cutting

This article presents some of the findings of cutting investigations at WZL in which the correlation of cutting parameters, cutting materials, tool geometry and tool life have been determined.
PUBLISHER'S PAGE | 2006-03-01

The Premise and the Promise

Gear Technology was founded 22 years ago on a very simple principle: to provide the best possible educational articles and information for the gear industry.
ADDENDUM | 2005-03-01

Gear Tattoos

Imagine a shop supervisor with a three-gear drivetrain tattooed on his bicep or a saleswoman with a tiny spur gear silhouetted just above her ankle.
PRODUCT NEWS | 2003-07-01

Product News

Complete Product News for July/August 2003.
FEATURE ARTICLES | 1993-11-01

Buyers Guide 1993

Gear Technology's first annual buyers guide
INDUSTRY NEWS | 1993-07-01

Gear Tip Chamfer and Gear Noise; Surface Measurement of Spiral Bevel Gear Teeth

Could the tip chamfer that manufacturing people usually use on the tips of gear teeth be the cause of vibration in the gear set? The set in question is spur, of 2.25 DP, with 20 degrees pressure angle. The pinion has 14 teeth and the mating gear, 63 teeth. The pinion turns at 535 rpm maximum. Could a chamfer a little over 1/64" cause a vibration problem?
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