Setup & Tool Presetting

AFC Industries has launched Cline Tool Customs, a brand focused on "delivering custom engineered tooling solutions designed to solve complex manufacturing challenges with precision and speed." Cline Tool Customs builds on the former Cline Tool’s long-standing reputation for technical expertise, application knowledge, and hands-on service.

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Maximize machine uptime by streamlining tool setups offline. Manual tool setups are time consuming, inefficient, and a thing of the past. Today's most efficient shops integrate a presetter to maximize uptime, boost accuracy, ensure consistency, and improve overall machining efficiency - for both mills and lathes.

Tool presetters are helping small shops reduce setup time, minimize scrap, and improve consistency across machines.

At Lyndex-Nikken, the team demonstrates the E346BA tool presetter—a mid-entry, granite-base tabletop model designed to improve shop efficiency by measuring tools offline and maximizing spindle uptime.

This page features the supplemental digital content associated with the "Smarter Setups" feature article in the June/July 2025 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Embedded below are brief videos focused on tool presetter technology from Lyndex-Nikken, Haimer USA and BIG DAISHOWA. Also included are links to the online presetter ROI calculators offered by Lyndex-Nikken and BIG DAISHOWA.

Zoller, the global leader in tool presetting, inspection, and tool management solutions, proudly announces the grand reopening of its expanded Zoller Pacific facility in Torrance, California.

Machine shops adopt intelligent, flexible systems to overcome labor gaps and streamline production.

Zoller Inc. selected the winners of its inaugural Toolroom of the Year competition during the 2024 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago.

Explore integrated solutions that make manufacturing more efficient at Zoller Inc.'s 2024 Open House and Technology Days.

Shop seeks solution to better organize and manage tooling on the floor

Tool presetters boost machine uptime and offer other big benefits.