Hardware Knowledge Hall: Application Prospects of Combination Tools

In order to meet the requirements of increasingly diversified products, higher production efficiency and environmental protection faced by manufacturing technologies, new processing technologies such as high-speed cutting and dry cutting have emerged one after another. High-speed cutting technology significantly reduces the cutting time in the machining process, which is the result of the use of new tool materials and coatings. On this basis, the potential to increase productivity by further improving cutting parameters has been very limited.

Another way to increase productivity is to minimize auxiliary time. First of all, the processing method of decomposing complex parts into many processes and using many tools accounts for a lot of tool change time and transmission time before and after the process. Reducing these times is of practical significance to increase productivity. One of the methods that has been proven to be very effective is to replace the single-function standard tool with a multi-functional combined tool, and the correct selection and rational use of the combined tool will achieve the desired effect.

At present, the increasingly complex combined tool structure is recognized by users. In order to promote the development of combined tools and expand the scope of use, tool manufacturers must consider the various problems that users may encounter while developing these tools, seek solutions, and take various measures, including the development of controllable tools with a certain degree of flexibility. , Develop new coating technologies, tool materials and geometric shapes. In order to reduce tool costs, even the tool production base can be transferred to regions with low manufacturing costs.

However, flexible combination tools can only be promoted when there is no need to modify the machine tool or smoothly connect with the control system; the new combination tools will integrate every factor related to processing efficiency, such as matrix materials, coating materials, Geometry and other factors should be optimized for specific processing objects to form a comprehensive advantage. At the same time, due to the saving of auxiliary time, the utilization of these advantages has been improved, and the effect of increasing productivity has been achieved. This trend of comprehensive application of improving cutting efficiency and reducing auxiliary time will promote the wider application of combined tools.