Kennametal Inc.
1600 Technology Way
Latrobe, PA 15650 US
800-446-7738
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Kennametal Inc. Supplies the Following Products
- Arbors (for Cutters)
- Boring Tools for Turning Machines
- Chamfering Tools
- Chuck Jaws & Collets
- Chucks, Jaw Type
- Chucks, Precision
- Chucks, Special
- Collets, Solid & Master
- Counterbores/Countersinks
- Cut-Off Tools/Attachments
- Drill Bushings
- Drill Chucks
- Drilling Heads/Attachments
- Drills
- End Mills
- Facing Tools/Heads
- Form Tools
- Gear Cutting Tools
- Grooving Tools
- Inserts, Indexable (Carbide, etc.) & Tool Inserts
- Key Seating Tools
- Milling Cutters
- Reamers
- Taps
- Thread Milling Cutters
- Threading Tools
- Threading Tools - Cutting
- Threading Tools - Forming
- Tool Crib Control
- Toolholders
- Tooling Systems, Modular and/or Quick-Change
- Training
Trade Names Offered by Kennametal Inc.
- Hanita VariMills
- KM
- KDMB
- KSEM
- Y-TECH
- Kenclamp
- A3
- HARVI
- Kendex
- KENNA PERFECT
- A2
- Dodeka
- KSOM
- A4 Groove & Turn System
- ToolBoss
- BEYOND
- KSRM
- KenTIP
- Kenloc
- KSOM Mini
- Top Notch
- KM Micro
- Mill 1
- KSSM
- KENNA UNIVERSAL
Editorial, News, and Products
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Kennametal Turning Tools Improve Chip Evaluation
TopSwiss turning inserts are engineered for low-feed, high depth-of-cut applications across industries.
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Kennametal Solid End Mill Improves High-Volume Production
Kennametal Inc. has added the Harvi I TE solid end mill to its Duo-λOCK platform, aiming to increase radial engagement and high ramping capabilities.
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Creating a Learning Culture at JD Machine
JD Machine, 2024’s Top Shops Honoree in Human Resources, embodies its “Education for Life” core value with a robust apprenticeship program and significant continuous improvement efforts.
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Kennametal Five-Flute End Mill Provides Extended Tool Life
IMTS 2024: Kennametal’s solid end mill is designed to perform in a range of applications.
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Kennametal Announces Strategic Partnership With ModuleWorks
Joining Moduleworks’ Strategic Partner Program enables Kennametal to improve service to small and medium-sized general engineering shops.
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Kennametal Chip Fan Automates Chip Clearance
The Chip Fan features a specialized fan blade design activated by centrifugal force to support automated chip clearance.
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Kennametal Partners With American Precision Museum
The American Precision Museum will showcase Kennametal tools in its makerspace, where visitors can explore and learn about different machining solutions.
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FFG Celebrates Grand Opening of Technology Center
The event featured live demonstrations of CNC equipment and vertical/horizontal milling and turning solutions for high-speed, die/mold, heavy duty, multi-axis, multitasking and high-volume machining solutions across various FFG brands.
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Kennametal Drill Lineup Offers Extended Application Range
The Drill Fix Pro is designed for extended tool life and smooth drilling at high metal removal rates, with outboard inserts that feature a wiper geometry for smoother surface finishes and larger coolant channels for high-volume flow.
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Grob Systems Inc. to Host Tech Event With Industry Partners
The 5-Axis Live technology event will highlight new machining strategies for optimizing the production of complex medical, aerospace and mold/die parts.
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Kennametal's Expanded Tooling Portfolio Improves Performance
The company has launch eight new products that expand on and support existing platforms across multiple applications.
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Kennametal Integrates New Tool Library With Mastercam
Mastercam users will be able to import data on Kennametal’s cutting tools, including GoDrill and Kenna Universal solid carbide drills, as well as a selection of end mills.
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Kennametal Expands Modular Drilling Platform
The KenTip FS GTP insert allows for multiple machining applications across materials including steel, stainless steel and cast iron.
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10 Ways Additive Manufacturing and Machining Go Together and Affect One Another
Forget “additive versus subtractive.” Machining and metal additive manufacturing are interconnected, and enhance the possibilities for one another. Here is a look at just some of the ways additive and machining interrelate right now.
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Ceramic Turning Grade Offers Alternative to PcBN
Kennametals’ KYHK15B grade reportedly provides greater depth of cut capabilities than PcBN inserts when machining hardened steel, high-temperature alloys and cast iron.
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A New Milling 101: Milling Forces and Formulas
The forces involved in the milling process can be quantified, thus allowing mathematical tools to predict and control these forces. Formulas for calculating these forces accurately make it possible to optimize the quality of milling operations.
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Indexable Milling Inserts Designed for Long Life
Kennametal has introduced milling inserts designed for wear resistance and improved tool life.
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Cutting Tool Maker Succeeding With 3D Printed Carbide for Oil/Gas and Other Applications
Powders, parts and products are different ways the company is advancing with AM. Carbide and tools are separate areas of success.
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3D Printed Tool for Machining Electric Vehicle Motors: The Cool Parts Show #39
Additive manufacturing achieves a large-diameter cutting tool light enough for fast, precise machining of the motor housing’s stator bore.
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New Kennametal Turning System Has Eight Cutting Edges Per Insert
Kennametal’s Fix8 turning system is said to increase productivity of heavy-duty turning operations while providing the lowest cost per edge and reducing cutting forces up to 15%.
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Kennametal KAR85-AM-K Is Corrosion-Resistant Tungsten Carbide for AM
KAR85-AM-K is said to combine the wear performance of conventional tungsten carbide with the design flexibility of 3D printing to produce high-performance parts for oil and gas, power generation and more.
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Women in Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2021 Inductees Named
The Women in Manufacturing Education Foundation has announced the 2021 Hall of Fame inductees, who will be honored at the group’s annual SUMMIT.
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Kennametal Introduces FBX Drill for Aerospace Machining
The FBX drill from Kennametal is designed for flat-bottom drilling for structural aerospace parts, combining advantages from a flat-bottom drill and a Z-axis plunge mill.
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Continuous Improvement Requires Continuous Effort
So-called “busywork” hones natural instincts for reform as a specialist CNC machine shop adapts a more formalized methodology.
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Kennametal Says Its PCD Tools Outperform Carbide Tools
Kennametal has debuted a line of PCD tools, including drills, reams and end mills, that it says improves upon carbide tooling for aluminum and aluminum-alloy machining.
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Kennametal End Mill's Rippled Relief Improves Coolant Flow
Kennametal’s HARVI I TE four-flute ballnose end mill features a proprietary relief that improves coolant flow and milling versatility.
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Kennametal FEG Drill Insert Eliminates End Milling
Kennametal’s FEG drill insert is designed to increase the ease of drilling flat-bottom holes into difficult and curved surfaces while eliminating the need for end milling.
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Kennametal Introduces Flat Bottom Geometry for KenTIP FS
The newest addition to Kennametal’s modular drill tip series, the KenTip FS FEG insert is designed to eliminate the need for drilling and end milling flat-bottom holes, instead completing the part in a single operation.
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Kennametal's KOR 5 End Mill Enables Higher Feed Rates Roughing Aluminum
Kennametal’s KOR 5 solid carbide end mill is designed for high-speed aluminum roughing in aerospace applications.
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PCBN Inserts from Kennametal Make Hard Turning More Cost-Effective
Kennametal’s KBH10B and KBH20B grades, designed for hard turning, are available in double-sided inserts for materials as hard as 65 HRC.
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Is Robotic Automation the Key to Drawing (and Keeping) New Employees?
Robotic automation is transforming a job that was perhaps a machine operator’s least-favorite work assignment into one that is not a heavy lift.
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Turret Toolblock Adapter Helps Shop Succeed with Quick-Change Toolholder
Finding itself challenged to take full advantage of two new Y-axis lathes, Anthony Machine found a solution in Kennametal’s Turret Adapted Clamping Units which, combined with the KM quick-change toolholder, have reduced cycle times and setups significantly and reliably.
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Kennametal’s Mill 4-12KT Features a Triangular Margin Design
Kennametal’s Mill 4-12KT tangential shoulder mills apply lower cutting forces and feature a triangular margin design enabling faster feeds without putting additional stress on the spindle, the company says.
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Waterjet Nozzle Enables Longer Cuts
Kennametal’s APX series of Roctec waterjet nozzles are said to provide 20 percent longer operating life than the Roctec 500 series of tungsten carbide nozzles.
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Boring System Contains Anti-Chatter Mechanism
Kennametal’s plug-and-play boring system contains an anti-chatter mechanism.
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Overcoming Racing CNC Machine Shop Challenges
Automotive racing teams’ machine shops are essentially job shops. An IMTS panel discussion I moderated highlighted ways Stewart-Haas Racing’s shop meets the challenges of a high-mix/low-volume machining environment.
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Helical Cutter Delivers High Metal Removal Rates, Low Cutting Forces
Kennametal’s Harvi Ultra 8X helical milling cutter was designed to meet high metal removal needs in aerospace machining as well as to provide machinists with a tool that can withstand higher cutting speeds but generate lower machining forces.
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Hydraulic Chuck Drill Extensions Reach Past Fixtures
Kennametal’s line of hydraulic chuck (HC) extensions has been designed to enable drilling holes in deep cavities and complex pockets as well as reaching past clamps and fixtures.
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Slotting Cutter's Insert Positioning Extends Life, Accuracy
The Kennametal Narrow Slotting (KNS) cutter enables the separation of cast exhaust manifolds and steering components.
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Imported Tool Assemblies Save Time in CAM Programming
CNC Software Inc. has partnered with Kennametal to enable users to import tool assemblies from Novo to Mastercam 2018, saving them time when searching for tools and giving them the ability to build 3D tool assemblies that can be brought directly into the CAM program.
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Expanded Modular End Mill Series More than Doubles Options
Kennametal is building on its Duo-Lock modular end mill by offering more sizes, geometries and shank styles.
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Partners in THINC Winter Showcase to Demonstrate Five-Axis Setup
The demonstration is intended to benefit shops that need to do five-axis work but don’t want to or need to incur the price of a dedicated five-axis machine tool.
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New Aerospace End Mill Design Results from Tool Standardization Contest
The latest version of Kennametal’s Harvi tool was developed through efforts aimed at a competition for reducing an aircraft manufacturer’s tooling choices.
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Knuth Machine Tools to Host Productivity Workshop
The event will focus on machine tool efficiency, highlighting Knuth’s machine tools and Fagor Automation’s CNC technologies.
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Stiffness Improvement at Interface Leads to Spindle Life Increase
How the tool was clamped affected the spindle’s life because of the way the user naturally attempted to overcome the stiffness limitation, says tooling company.
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Economies of Usable Cutting Tool Edges
Recent introductions from a major cutting tool maker illustrate the engineering and application of tools designed to deliver an increased number of useful edges.
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Applications Advance for Solid Ceramic End Mills
All they need is speed! Tools for roughing nickel-based alloys can be used in the same processes as carbide tools, just with high rpm and no coolant.
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Face Mill Achieves Full Engagement in CGI
Kennametal’s Mill 16 face mill is designed to tackle tough cast iron applications.
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Milling Tool Provides Essentially Stepless Pocketing to 6.5 mm Deep
Kennametal’s Mill 4-11 indexable milling cutter is designed to provide accurate pocket positioning and the free cutting action of a single-sided insert at a cost per edge similar to a double-sided insert.
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PCD Face Milling System’s Diameter Cuts Large Parts in Fewer Passes
The KBDM polycrystalline diamond (PCD) face milling system from Kennametal is designed for high-volume machining, with standard sizes ranging from 2.5" to 8.0" (63 to 200 mm) and cutter diameters ranging to 21.5" (550 mm).
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The ABCs of PECM
Kennametal is advocating Precision Electrochemical Machining (PECM) for lower cost per part, low electrode wear, fewer material hardness concerns and other benefits in producing complex geometrical shapes in metal.
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ISO 13399—A Key Step Toward Data-Driven Manufacturing
Decisions about the cutting tools used in machining operations are arguably among the most important in modern manufacturing.
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Solid Carbide Drill Can Replace PCD Drill for Aluminum
Kennametal’s HPS solid carbide drills are constructed of the company’s Beyond KN15 carbide, making them suitable for aluminum machining applications including holemaking.
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Discover More—And I Did
The time I spent at the Discover More with Mazak Midwest event in Schaumburg, Ill. was designed to help attendees discover new tools and techniques for staying ahead of the manufacturing curve. Here are four good ideas that caught my attention.
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How One CNC Shop Effectively Machines Glass-Fiber-Filled Plastics
You know how to machine metals, but what about plastic machining? More specifically, glass-fiber-reinforced plastic? This machine shop has it figured out.
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How One Job Shop Tackled Tungsten
When this aerospace job shop settled on machining tungsten alloys and other heavy metals as its specialty, it had to have a machine tool, cutting tools, workholding and process know-how to succeed.
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Kennametal Recognized For Ethical Corporate Culture
Cutting tool manufacturer Kennametal has been named as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by The Ethisphere Institute. A look at the factors on which this award is based shows that ethics is more than adhering to a strict code of ethics in a corporate handbook.
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iPad App Enables Product Comparison
The Kennametal Innovations app for the iPad features interactive animations and real-world demonstrations of the company’s technology in use.
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Savings from Sustainability
A project aimed at energy-efficient machining delivered production efficiencies, too.
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A Systems Approach for Successful Titanium Machining
Coolant delivery, spindle connection and dynamic response all are part of a tooling formula for milling this metal productively.
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Matching Manufacturing Perceptions with Realities
A survey suggests the public continues to view manufacturing in a negative light, despite evidence to the contrary.
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Kennametal CEO Speaks at National Press Club
Carlos Cardoso emphasizes manufacturing careers and the need for manufacturers to more-actively educate young people about these opportunities.
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The Buzz about the B Axis
The rotating milling head is a defining feature on a turn-mill machine designed for efficient production of complex parts in low volumes.
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A New Milling 101: What Customers Demand
Part 5. For W Machine Works in San Fernando, a custom variation of the WIDIA-Hanita VariMILL II solid end mill proved especially effective in roughing and semi-finishing applications in stainless steels, high-temp alloys, nickel- and carbon-based alloys, and titanium.
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A New Milling 101: Selecting Tool Materials and Coatings
Part 4. The emergence of new workpiece materials is driving the development of new cutting tool materials and tool coatings. These, in turn, are driving the development of new milling processes and techniques.
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A New Milling 101: What Milling Is, Then and Now (Plus a Glossary of Milling Terms)
Part 1: Greater understanding of milling tools, what they can accomplish, and the optimum circumstances in which to employ them, is always valuable. The continuing development in milling tools in the face of changing customer requirements, advanced workpiece materials, and the constant need to improve productivity while reducing costs make this even more important today.
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A New Milling 101: Cutter Design and Application Considerations
Part 2: Cutting tool geometry governs almost all design and application considerations related to various milling choices.
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Turning Inserts Accelerate Productivity
Kennametal says the Beyond inserts for its FixPerfect system are designed for toughness and wear-resistance to improve turning productivity and safety.
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Interactive Catalog App Available on iTunes
Kennametal’s offers an interactive catalog app for the iPad platform.
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Try Tweeting for a Tool?
Here is how Twitter will serve the metalworking industry.
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Last Glance at IMTS 2010
It would be impossible to cover all of the key exhibitors at IMTS 2010—even if every booth got merely a quick glance. However, the editors of MMS did get glimpses of some interesting technologies exhibited at the show...
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Holemaking Inserts Boost Drilling Productivity
Designed for holemaking applications, Kennametal’s Beyond insert line includes three new grades,KCPK10, KCU25 and KCU40.
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Tooling Improves Productivity In Small-Diameter Face Grooving Applications
The Beyond carbide grade of face grooving inserts and tooling from Kennametal includes three new geometries for small-diameter internal and external applications. The precision-ground and molded styles are available in both flat-edge and full-radius face grooving geometries.
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Shrink-Fit Covers Carbide, Steel, HSS Shanks
Kennametal offers a shrink-fit toolholding system for machining centers and multi-tasking machines. The program is split in two lines: general purpose (GP) and high torque (HT).
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Grades Improve Titanium Turning Productivity
Kennametal’s Beyond line of high-performance turning products includes 11 additional grades for improved productivity in steel, stainless steels and cast iron applications. The latest grade, KCS10, is a medium positive (MP) geometry with the capability of improved titanium designed to improve surface finish while extending tool life.
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End Mills Feature High Performance, Long Tool Life
Designed to replace multiple tools used for roughing, semi-finishing, slotting and profiling, Hanita’s VariMill II family of solid-carbide end mills is suited for high-temperature alloys, nickel- and carbon-based alloys and titanium. Available from Kennametal, the tools feature five unequally spaced flutes, a patented flute form and end geometry and AlTiN coating that enables heavy cuts and long tool life, the company says. The end mill geometries are designed to virtually eliminate chatter and harmonics to allow slotting at cutting depths of 1 × D and perform side-milling operations at redial and axial cutting depths ranging to 0.
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Modular Drill Diameter Range Expands
The Ken TIP modular drill system from Kennametal features various solid-steel bodies (3 × D, 5 × D and 8 × D, among others) and replaceable drill points for precision hole-making in steel. The modular design allows users to keep the drill bodies in a machine or holder and replace drill points as needed. Running at speeds comparable to those of solid carbide drills, the system offers high metal removal rates compared to common modular drills and reduces setup times, the company says.
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Modular Drills Combine Benefits Of Indexable Tools
Kennametal says its KSEM Plus modular drills combine the high feed rates and length/diameter capabilities of modular drills with the high speed and low consumable costs of indexable drills. The drills offer increased metal removal rates and productivity in various applications, including the energy market. The drill bodies accept a range of head diameters, and inserts or heads can be replaced without removing the body from the spindle.
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Helical Cutters Increase Milling Versatility, Performance
Mill 1-14 helical cutters from Kennametal are designed for greater axial depth of cut than a standard end mill, the company says. The flexible cutter range features inserts stacked two, three and four high. The helical cutters can be used for medium to heavy roughing and semi-finishing in applications such as contour profiling, slotting, ramping, helical ramping from solid and plunge milling.
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Tooling For Turning
Kennametal’s 800-page turning catalog contains information on new product offerings as well as classic tooling selections designed to increase accuracy and productivity in turning, grooving, cutoff and various other turning center applications.
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Extra Tough Tool Steel Meets Its Match In Extra Tough Inserts
A new grade of coated inserts enabled this shop to cut an especially hard tool steel so effectively and efficiently that it could deliver a massive set of press brake dies on time. The inserts are part of Kennametal’s Beyond line of carbide tooling.
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Thinking About Shopfloor Interoperability-And Making It Happen
The significance of “plug-and-produce” integration for machine shops and manufacturing plants becomes clear from the perspective of an ERP software developer.
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Machine Tools Used As Dedicated Equipment…For A Little While
Two keys to this shop’s success are versatility and speed. It uses flexible machining centers, rather than dedicated equipment, and constantly reconfigures them into new cells for new jobs. The speed at which it can do this, in addition to in-house tombstone manufacturing capability, provides the nimbleness to quickly respond to its customers’ needs.
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From Out Of The Lab
Disruptive technology's purpose is to disrupt the way machining is done. This article includes some of the developments to come out of the Machining Technology Laboratory (MTL), an R&D initiative dedicated to finding innovations in metalworking processes.
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A Subscription To Spindle Speeds
A peculiar characteristic of machine tools is that they can't be put to use until the user performs a critical final assembly step-installing the cutting tool in the machine.
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Making Programming Hands-Free (Almost)
Feature-recognition CAM software helps this technology company's internal mold shop deliver critical molds more quickly. A programmer is still needed, but the software automation saves considerable time.
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Cylinder Head Porting On A Turn/Mill Machine
This complex milling operation is performed effectively on a machine that does turning.
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Software Automates Tool Inventory Tracking
Nestled in a farming community of 1,500 people, MetalQuest Unlimited (Hebron, Nebraska) is a 40-person shop serving the petroleum, energy distribution, hydraulics, agriculture, electronics and automotive parts sectors. At its inception in 1996, the company had one multi-axis CNC lathe. It has since added a variety of multi-functional CNC machining centers and lathes.
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Selecting High Speed Tooling Requires A Balanced Approach
Plug in the right choices, use the right formulas and repeatability, reliability and improved productivity result.
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The Incentive Effect
The Future of Machining - 2005 It's not just changes in machining challenges that matter. Changes in cost analysis and business arrangements are also driving the introduction of new tools.
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Extreme Tool Setting
A plant performing 79,000 tool setups per year measures these tools with one presetter and two gatekeepers.
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Unusual Function For Groove And Turn System
Although this tooling was engineered for turn, face, profile, OD and ID groove, bore and cutoff applications, it is used in 95 percent of the company's threading functions in which large OD square threads are required.
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End Mill Designed For Ramping
Features of the tool facilitate ramping and other aspects of milling holes and pockets.
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Carbide Drill Improves Productivity For Heat Exchanger Manufacturer
After using this solid carbide drill, the company experienced a 250 percent increase in feed rates and a 250 percent jump in speed.
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Milling System Keeps Valve Production Flowing Smoothly
Carbide inserts proved to be too slow in the milling of three Inconel high-performance alloys used in the manufacture of valve components for oil drilling and other industrial and commercial applications.
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How to Choose the Right Tool for Milling Titanium
Milling titanium is different from other metals because of the risk of heat build-up. Thanks to the metal’s low thermal conductivity, overly aggressive milling may even pose a risk of combustion. With titanium, in other words, there may be more than one reason why the cutting speed can’t be increased. And yet the speed of production still can be increased.
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Harley Davidson Parts Manufacturer Mills A 'Mile Of Aluminum'
This designer and manufacturer of Harley-Davidson aftermarket motorcycle engines and related components, is using PCD milling to finish engine cases, oil pumps, rocker boxes, inner and outer primary engine covers, and transmission cases and covers.
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Holding The Center
Using a collet-type workholding system, a high-volume shop improves accuracy when machining round parts.
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New Borders For Swiss-Type Turning
The traditional niche may be too narrow. This shop uses sliding-headstock lathes for jobs that wouldn't normally be run on this type of machine.
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Milling System Puts Productivity In Fast Lane
When this company won a contract to machine automotive parts for a customer, they were faced with the need for a milling tool that could meet tighter cycle times, enable machining centers to perform multiple tasks, maximize the life of milling tools and reduce tool inventory.
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Vacuum Pump Maker Finds Innovative Ways To Reduce Manufaturing Costs
With new tooling, this manufacturer was able to mill housings at 3,000 sfm and a feed rate of 230 ipm. Cutting time dropped from 20.68 minutes to 12.74 minutes, a savings of nearly 40 percent.
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Trends That Drive Cutting Tool Development
Cutting tools have highly engineered coatings and geometries for all types of manufacturing methods and materials.
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Are You Turning Fast Enough?
Let's face it. When most shops go looking for process improvements, turning is seldom at the top of the list. Sure, many shops these days are doing fine work in such areas as reducing lathe setup, combining milling and turning operations on a single machine, and automating workpiece handling functions. But for all the talk of high speed machining and other milling and drilling process improvements, precious little of that kind of thinking is being applied to the turning process itself.
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The Case For Cutting Tool Standardization
It's possible to increase overall machining efficiency at the same time you decrease cutting tool inventory. Here's how.
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Tool Considerations for High Speed Cutting
Fast CNC processing and high-pressure coolant contribute to removing metal at dramatic rates. But what should a shop know about cutting tools in high speed machining?