{"id":15663,"date":"2019-03-12T04:13:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T04:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/?p=15663"},"modified":"2019-03-12T04:13:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T04:13:31","slug":"anthony-machine-kennametal-team-reduce-setup-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtuupdate.in\/mtu\/2019\/03\/12\/anthony-machine-kennametal-team-reduce-setup-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Machine and Kennametal Team-up to Reduce Setup Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas job shop reaps the benefits of quick-change toolholders<\/p>\n

For more than three decades, Kennametal\u2019s KM\u2122 brand of quick-change tooling has been making machine shops more efficient. As thousands of customers will attest, KM provides shorter setup times, greater flexibility, higher levels of machine utilization, and the ability to meet the industry\u2019s increasingly stringent requirements head on.<\/p>\n

One of these is Anthony Machine Inc. Since 1946, the San Antonio job shop has served a variety of industries, including oil and gas, mining, transportation and power generation. With all that precision machining experience, there\u2019s little this San Antonio job shop can\u2019t handle. However, after the company purchased a pair of NLX 3000 1250 universal turning centers from CNC machine builder DMG Mori\u2014the shop\u2019s first Y-axis, live-tool lathes\u2014Anthony\u2019s manufacturing team was challenged with making the most of that new investment.<\/p>\n

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After seeing the benefits of using KM on their new NLX machines, Anthony Machine is planning to expand its use of quick-change tooling to other parts of the shop.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kennametal senior sales engineer Mark Davis was there to help, just as he\u2019s been for the past decade. He explained to Anthony that the best way to reduce setup times and maximize the new machines\u2019 potential would be to equip them with Turret Adapted Clamping Units (TACU) and KM quick-change toolholders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe TACU system supports everything from KM32 up to KM63,\u201d Davis says. \u201cWe offer blocks for both static and driven tools, and can tool up lathes from Okuma, Haas, Mazak, Doosan, and of course DMG Mori\u2014pretty much all of the major machine tool builders, with more coming online all the time. This makes it both easy and cost-effective for our customers to equip more than 80 models of CNC turning centers with a fast, flexible and accurate quick-change toolholding system.\u201dAccording to Anthony Machine manufacturing technologist Daniel Goller, the decision to adopt TACU and KM for the new machines was an easy one. \u201cOver the years, we\u2019ve built a number of KM-equipped custom toolholders for deep boring and other machining operations on our CNC lathes and machining centers, and we use Kennametal? on several of the shop\u2019s manual turret lathes to overcome limitations with available tool positions,\u201d he says. \u201cOn more than one occasion, we\u2019ve earned new business because KM was able to achieve tolerances and surface finishes that others couldn\u2019t do with conventional tooling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mohsen Saleh and CNC machinist setter Mark Garland discuss a workpiece produced on one of Anthony Machine\u2019s DMG Mori NLX 3000 1250 universal turning centers.<\/p><\/div>\n

Anthony\u2019s operations manager Mohsen Saleh agrees. \u201cThe differences are striking,\u201d he says. \u201cCompared to the traditional wedge and screw-style blocks that come standard on most machines, the KM-equipped TACU units are both faster and more accurate. We routinely hold tolerances of 0.0005″ (0.013 mm) and I\u2019m told that part size doesn\u2019t change from one clamping to the next. The turret\u2019s less crowded, everything\u2019s easier to get at, and you don\u2019t have the chatter and deflection that you often find with your typical straight shank tools and set-screw type boring bar holders.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthony\u2019s experience with TACU is what we\u2019ve come to expect from KM,\u201d notes Kennametal\u2019s Davis. \u201cConsidering the breadth of the platform, its accuracy, and especially its flexibility, it\u2019s quickly become the de facto industry standard in quick-change tooling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saleh summarizes Anthony\u2019s recent success with a bit of company perspective. \u201cWe bought our first CNC machine in 1986,\u201d he says. \u201cAt that time, we were using a well-known competitive brand, and then Kennametal came knocking. What first struck us was their service-oriented attitude. They\u2019ve always been willing to come in and work with us on applications, which together with the quality of their products is why they\u2019ve since become our preferred tooling supplier. We\u2019re always competing against smaller, lower-cost shops, and in order to continue winning new business in this environment, we have to adopt the latest in advanced tooling and machine tool technology. This is what\u2019s given us the edge, and Kennametal is a big part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas job shop reaps the benefits of quick-change toolholders For more than three decades, Kennametal\u2019s KM\u2122 brand of quick-change tooling has been making machine shops more efficient. As thousands of customers will attest, KM provides shorter setup times, greater flexibility, higher levels of machine utilization, and the ability to meet the industry\u2019s increasingly stringent requirements<\/p>\n

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