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Cutting Tools: Technology to Make Your Process Easier

Having the right cutting tool technology for moldmaking is a crucial component for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

High-Feed Performance for Mold and Die Machining Operations

The Ingersoll NanoFeed indexable insert’s applicability for detailed, high-feed rest roughing operations offers mold builders optimized milling performance for miniature components and smaller part features.

Metalworking Commodities for Your Next-Gen Molds

Featured in this month's technology roundup are products, processes and services that revolve around metalworking. Also highlighted is software, automation and more.

MoldMaking Technology's Most-Viewed Content 2022: Products

MMT shares the five top-viewed technologies, equipment and services of 2022 in each Engineer, Build, Maintain and Manage tenet based on Google Analytics.

Get Ready for IMTS With These Mold Manufacturing-Focused Exhibits

It’s always important to visit IMTS with a general plan of action. MMT editors help familiarize you with several machining, software, cutting tool, EDM and mold repair innovations that will be exhibited and are geared toward moldmaking.

Mini Indexable End Mills Deploy High-Density Cutting with Small-Diameter Range

Operational and versatility for moldmakers is offered in the Ingersoll “mini” indexable end mill line, displayed at IMTS 2022.

Metalworking Technologies Targeting Mold Builders

Inspection/measurement, cutting tools, design software, machining and automation equipment round out this technology roundup.

Taking A Look at Digital-Only Cutting Tool Highlights

MMT covers 16 newly released or optimized cutting tool products that aim to facilitate increased productivity, reliability and accuracy.

Technology Roundup: Selecting the Right Cutting Tool

Tool up with new product offerings from Iscar, Tungaloy, Horn, Walter, Haimer, Union Tool, YG-1 and other suppliers.

Indexable High-Feed Mills Family is Expanded and Enhanced

The Ingersoll DiPosFeed series features four insert sizes, grades for all materials, three different cutting-edge preparation options and a range of cutter diameters.

Ceramic High-Feeding Milling Line Highlights Extreme Roughing Performance

The Ingersoll CeraSFeed features two double-sided indexable insert styles and a rigid clamping system for milling heat-resistant super alloy (HRSA) materials.

High-Feed Milling Tools Applies High Feed Rates and Steep Ramping

The NuMaxHF family of high-feed milling tools from Ingersoll Cutting Tools feature a thick, tangential insert with a diamond shape and a large inboard angle.

Multi-Directional Turning Tool Maximizes Materials Removal

The SuperTurnZ from Ingersoll Cutting Tools utilizes the front and back cutting edge of a four-corner insert in a single tool for higher feed rate capabilities.

Three-Flute Drill Facilitates Quick Drill Tip Replacement

The Ingersoll TwistSFeed offers an upgraded clamping mechanism and a self-centering point to ensure optimal performance, precision and stability.

Modular Connection Increases Milling Performance

Ingersoll Cutting Tools’ stock standard M20 Top-On modular connection increases strength and milling performance in the Top-On system.

Amerimold 2019 Product Showcase, Part 5

Plan ahead for Amerimold 2019 with a sneak peek of some highlighted products from the show’s extensive list of exhibitors!

IMTS 2018: Process,Technology and Service Advancements

Advancements in automation and digital manufacturing took center stage during IMTS last week, but developments in additive manufacturing, cutter technology, machining solutions, simulation software, EDM, laser technology and customer service were other hot items.

Accuracy and Surface-Finish Needs Drive Cutting-Tool Solutions

Cutting-tool suppliers are using advanced coatings, new thread designs, education and collaboration to help moldmakers maximize results.

2018 Technology Review and Sourcing Guide: Cutting Tools

MoldMaking Technology’s annual Technology Review and Sourcing Guide is an accurate, comprehensive, easy-to-read and easy-to-use use guide for researching today’s technology, equipment, products and services. The year’s latest moldmaking product developments within mold engineering/design, build and maintenance/repair are broken down into 10 sections, including cutting tools.

Ingersoll Seminar to Cover Cutting Tool Products

Ingersoll’s Gold Productivity Seminar takes place February 12–13, 2018 in Rockford, Illinois.

Realizing EDM's Full Potential with Automation

EMO Hannover 2017 was a showcase for EDM developments, automation solutions and software for data-driven manufacturing.

Technology Tuesday: Featured Films

Pass the popcorn, please! This week’s Technology Tuesday slideshow is all about videos that have supplemented feature articles and case studies in MoldMaking Technology over the past year.

Cutting Tool Trends and Observations

At Ingersoll Cutting Tool’s annual Die and Mold Seminar, there were many new and different products to learn about, but as important was hearing the trends in cutting technology.

Technology Showcase: More Case Studies for Moldmaking

This week’s Tech Showcase brings yet more case studies featuring the practical application of products for moldmaking.

Technology Showcase: Case Studies for MoldMaking

It’s time for another foray into past case study features that have been published in MoldMaking Technology Magazine.

SLIDESHOW: Technology Tuesday, Technology in Action

This week, instead of a showcase of static product information, I thought I'd share some videos demonstrating technology in action that MMT has covered.

Deep-Hole Drills Conquer Interrupted Cuts 60 Percent Faster

This Michigan mold shop saw significant gains in production and tool life from using a line of Ingersoll tools.

Faster Cornering in Cavity Hogging Boosts Capacity

With a cutter capable of plowing through the corners at full speed, a Michigan moldmaker says it has doubled rough-milling throughput, freeing up machine time for mechanical polishing instead of tedious handwork.

SLIDESHOW: Technology Showcase, Cutting Tools

Need cutting tools? There are so many to choose from it can be almost overwhelming, but here are a few MMT has showcased in recent months just in case you missed them.

Cutter Sets New Standard for Heavy Hogging

A recent roughing application shattered this moldmaker’s expectations about the stability of a large face mill in long-reach contouring operations.

Pairing the Right Tools With Foundational Knowledge

Cost-competitive mold manufacturing requires both, and a recent event at Ingersoll Cutting Tools campus delivered.

Striking Gold with New Cutting Tools

Here are a few examples of overall design trends spotted at a recent unveiling of new Ingersoll cutters, as well as brief descriptions of products designed specifically for mold manufacturing applications.

High-Feed Face Mills Offer Speed, Versatility

Two new cutters not only improved machining speed at this mold manufacturer, but also showcased the potential of some high-feed tooling for heavier, deeper cuts.

VIDEO: How to Machine a Football

We are in the heat of football season, so what better time to showcase how a football is machined.This video shows a model American Football being created out of 6061 Aluminium with a Toyoda UX-570 5 axis machine with a 3D offset toolpath: 0.032 dia cutter mounted in a Typhoon HSM Jet Spindle using thru spindle coolant at 36,000 RPM and 400 IPM.

CVD Out, PVD In

According to a coating specialist at one cutting tool manufacturer, the advantages of PVD coating increasingly outweigh those of its CVD counterparts, at least for milling.

Using Coolant to Ramp up RPM

Newly available from Ingersoll Cutting Tools, this auxiliary spindle offers an alternative to designs driven by planetary gears, air or electricity.

An Education that’s Worth the Trip

Cutting tool manufacturer Ingersoll recently dedicated a day and a half of classroom instruction and demonstrations solely to our corner of the industry.

Think Metric, Part 3

Insight from several technology suppliers—in design software, mold components, programming, machines, cutting tools and measurement equipment who have been following the metric trend—may help to make the transition a smooth one.

Understand Your Tools

"Challenge us to help you do what you do more effectively." Those were the words of Ingersoll Cutting Tools President Chuck Edler as he kicked off the Die & Mold Seminar this morning, which honed in on understanding the precise tools necessary for the delicate processes of mold manufacturing--milling, high-volume roughing, high-feed roughing, aluminum machining, gun drilling and hole making to name a few.

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