Product Demos

Robert Auer, an engineer and key account manager with Zoller, took a few minutes during IMTS 2010 to walk through the company's tool life monitoring and management system.

Flowdrill Inc. provides a video demonstration of its thermal drilling process. The company produces tungsten-carbide bits and roll-form taps to thermal drill and then thread holes in malleable materials.

Focus Variation, the technique behind Alicona's Infinite Focus 3D optical metrology system, has enabled EDM Department, Bartlett, Ill., to measure and see what it is making down to 1.7µm tolerances. Watch this brief report to see the system in action and learn about how EDM Department implemented the system.

Video shows Becker CBN inserts being used to hard turn 62Rc d2 steel. The inserts are sold in the U.S. by Rani Tool Corp.

Video of Becker PCD Chipbreaker inserts sold by Rani Tool Corp. eliminate bird nest chips when turning aluminum.

Machining molds typically involves creating complex contours and fine surface finishes. Molds are high-value items usually produced in single-digit volumes, making gradual process development and scrapping parts a costly exercise. Moldmakers' customers generally want to get their products to market as fast as possible, so lead times can be short and inflexible.

A Studer brand S242 machine, which combines hard milling and grinding, is shown hard milling a toolholder without coolant, then grinding the holder's taper with coolant to achieve the required surface finish.

Precision Dormer filmed its R571 CDX-DH "One-hit" Deep-Hole Drillmaking holes 102mm deep at a speed of 157mm/min. and feed rate of0.14mm/rev.

Iscar designed drills for small-diameter, deep holes in automotive crankshafts, camshafts, connecting rods and more—all with minimum quantity lubrication.

Rather than using taps to thread steel prior to hardening, a growing number of shops are opting to thread mill heat-treated steel.

Produced as an online complement to the October 2009 Productive Times article in Cutting Tool Engineering, this brief video looks at Myles Tool's decision to use a wheel truing machine from Rush Machinery.

As part of its occasional product focus video series, Cutting Tool Engineering Plus presents a closer look at the GrindSmart Nano6 from Rollomatic SA.