The search for the optimum tool

times and high and easy availability are important factors here. „In metalworking, too, it has always been true that the best tool is the one that is at hand,“ jokes Erich Timons, CTO at Iscar in Ettlingen.

Digital adaptation of tools

Tools must always be designed for their specific purpose. And: Digitisation is not bypassing cutting tools either. Optimised machining strategies are regularly used on modern CNC machines. These are planned, programmed, tested and verified in advance in a virtual environment by computer-aided design systems. The right tool should therefore have a suitable virtual component –the digital twin. The wide range of new products in the „Neologiq“ campaign aims to adapt solutions to modern machining –complemented by innovative cutting material grades, new tool and insert geometries. Among the new developments are solutions for sliding headstock automatic lathes and multitasking machines. When turning on the Y-axis, gravity helps with chip evacuation and simply transports long chips downwards. A new product line contributes to this – a modular tool system consisting of different tool holders, heads and shanks, especially for turning on the Y-axis. Also new (and designed as a modular quick-change system) is „Neoswiss“. It consists of various heads with WSP for turning, parting-off, grooving and threading on sliding headstock lathes. The head can be changed easily and quickly even in the limited working space of such a machine.

When searching for the optimum tool, the user can also rely on the support of digital tools. Iscar‘s „digital tool advisor“ offers a significant functional improvement – 3D and 2D tool representations, tool assemblies, an expanded e-catalogue and additional application software form the „backbone“ of the virtual environment here.

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