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Tool and cutter grinding
News Release from: Koerber Schleifring UK | Subject: Helitronic 5-axis tool grinder
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 January 2008
CNC tool and cutter grinder is
consistent
To meet increasing demand for tooling regrinds from aerospace companies, a UK specialist tooling manufacturer has added on another CNC tool and cutter grinder for its consistency.
Specialist tooling manufacturer and supplier, Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC), has added another Helitronic 5-axis tool grinder It complements seven other Walter CNC tool grinders and a Walter Heli Toolcheck tool measuring machine and represents a strategic investment by the company to meet increasing demand for tooling regrinds from aerospace OEMs such as Airbus and Rolls-Royce
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 29 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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ITC has bought the Helitronic to extend its capacity for high-precision drill and reamer regrinds.
The machine, a Walter Helitronic Power, supplied by Korber Schleifring UK of Honiley near Kenilworth, is part of ITC's 'substantial' investment process during 2008.
Sales director at ITC, Roy Talbot, commenting on ITC's continual programme, said: "is evidence of our commitment to the desire to always stay ahead of the competition through guaranteed high-quality output and responsive service." He added that the ITC-Walter machine association had extended over the past eight years and is based on good delivery and service back-up as much as it is on cost-effective machines that are fit for purpose.
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ITC designs, manufacture and regrinds of a wide range of HSS and carbide tooling for customers in the aerospace, motor sport (Formula One) and die and mouldmaking sectors in the UK and overseas.
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As well as the speed and accuracy of the five-axis CNC Walter Helitronic tool grinders, the added consistency that the Walter Heli Toolcheck tool measuring machine has brought to quality control is proving the ideal complement to enable ITC to extend its successful supply relationship with customers like Airbus and Rolls-Royce, said Koerber Schleifring to manufacturingtalk.com.
A variety of power generation form tools, drills and reamers, for example, are supplied to these companies, and manufacturing certification and traceability are essential.
"We know that the Helitronic Power effectively restores tooling back to original geometry, and the Toolcheck allows us to illustrate that," commented ITC technical director, Peter Graves.
He said how Walter's 'ancillary' technologies play a particularly beneficial role at the company.
He gave the example of a previously-installed Helitronic Power tool grinder with a Production Loader accommodates and randomly processes 280 tools of up 32mm diameter and 220mm long.
ITC also uses five other auto loading systems on Walter machines and therefore extends the company's commitment to 'lights-out', unmanned production.
This system complements the seven day shift operators who manage ITC's total machine park of 17 tool grinders.
* Software saves time - the Walter Cyber Grinding tool grinding software offers savings in cutting tool design and production by allowing non-standard new tools to be designed and 'manufactured' off-line.
Cyber Grinding eliminates time-consuming and costly prototypes, test batch work and interruptions to production, said ITC.
"Customers increasingly want cost-effective, high-quality tooling delivered promptly and backed up by a high level of problem-solving technical engineering expertise in extremely short delivery times," concludesd Talbot.
"We make sure we are in a position to respond, hence our continual investment in Walter technology.".
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