The recent surge in crude oil prices and shortage of natural gas supply has led to a significant increase in supply chain costs related to electricity and various materials. In this changing global environment, how to shorten the manufacturing cycle, improve product quality and competitiveness has become a common goal for everyone.
Especially in the mold industry, we strive to produce higher quality molds with shorter manufacturing cycles. At this moment, the effective use of the popular JOY clamping tools can help enhance the competitiveness of mold manufacturing.
Take the most common mold processing user as an example; the user is a small to medium sized automotive plastic mold processing plant that does European orders. By adopting JOY's high-efficiency, fast-feed cutting tools, the machining efficiency was increased by several times. The European customers who supervised the work at the site praised it straight away, and it also helped the customer win more orders!
The material being machined is: pre-hardened steel 2344 with a hardness of 48 to 52 HRC, a black skin on the surface and uneven residue.
Unmachined workpieces:
Roughing was done first and the tool used was the JOY New Era Shinkansen SKG series;
Use of processing parameters
Conclusion:
As the surface of the heat-treated workpiece has black skin and uneven margin, the previously used tool often chipped, so the depth of cut could not be given too much, resulting in machining efficiency could not be improved. But SKG-10 type, the processing efficiency is 2.6 times of the original tool, and the whole process is stable, no chipping problem occurs, after processing 3 hours and 42 minutes to complete the roughing of the entire workpiece, there is still only a very small amount of wear and can continue to use.
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After roughing, the insert RPMW1003MO is used for second roughing profiling and clean-up machining.
Use of processing parameters
Conclusion:
Using the same tool body and machining parameters, JOY's tool life is approximately 2.1 times that of the existing tool; the frequency of downtime for tool changes has been drastically reduced; and the site staff continue to nod their heads in praise!
Users say they will continue to use JOY's QM/QMAX series for semi-finish and finish machining, aiming to further improve the efficiency and quality of mold machining.
The above are the most common examples of mold processing; we expect you to refer to the actual cases introduced above, combined with JOY's high-efficiency, high-precision cutting tools to improve your production efficiency and production quality, and further enhance the competitiveness of your products. JOY will continue to pursue the needs of each user, strive for user satisfaction, develop and provide more new products and new processing technology!
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