Let's kick off our Custom Tool of the Month series with a serious showstopper - a form tool so efficient, it booted an entire machining center out of the process and saved our customer a jaw-dropping $280,000 a year. Yeah...you read that right.
Our Customer's Situation:
Our customer was using two machines to get the job done. First, the part was turned on a Swiss-style lathe and parted off. Then it took a field trip to a milling center, where multiple tools were needed to shape the part just right.
We saw an opportunity - and we ran with it.
Our team designed a custom form tool made to run in the live tooling bed of their Swiss-style lathe. That meant everything - turning, milling, shaping - could now happen before the part was even parted off.
The result?
- No more milling center required.
- Cycle time slashed from minutes to seconds.
- Freed up a whole machining center for more production.
- Annual savings ringing in at $280,000
This custom cutter didn't just streamline production - it reshaped the entire workflow.
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