Cutting Tool Management

Tool shortages are among the biggest time thieves in production, stopping spindles and requiring action. The first step of tool management is MMS module integrated to the machine tools, telling which tools are needed in which machine and when.

Measuring and enterin 5-digit cutting tool values many times per hour, day by day – in a year it can counts tens or hundreds of thousands manual tool setups. How many errors there are in a year? By using and integrating a tool presetting device, the tool presetting process is greatly streamlined and errors removed.

When the materials are challenging, tool lifetimes short or the mix of machines and tools high, centralized tool storage shares the cutting tools between different machines and delivers them automatically into machines based on real-time needs.

If tool lifetimes are extremely short and demand for renewed tools is high, the tool setup process can be automated. With Tool Service Cell (TSC), the only thing operator needs to do is to switch the tool inserts in an ergonomic tool loading station that holds up to four tools at once.