ANCA’s industry first competition is back with the 2019 winner to be announced live at EMO, Germany. Last year the industry welcomed the opportunity to show off their skills with almost 30 entries received from across the world being seen by over 122 thousand fans generating 3,000 comments and reactions on social media.ANCA’s industry first competition is back with the 2019 winner to be announced live at EMO, Germany.<\/p>\n
Pat Boland, ANCA Co-Founder comments, \u201cI have great respect for our customers\u2019 knowledge in designing and grinding quality cutting tools. Their skills drive our industry forward and most of ANCA\u2019s new technology is born from a customer\u2019s need to achieve something new.\u201d\u00a0\u201cWe should celebrate the collective acumen of our industry and showcase the fantastic work that is conducted every day to build our world. I encourage all cutting tool makers to enter our competition and show off your talents,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n
The cutting tool industry has cultivated and refined their craft over the years to design beautiful tools, applying science to achieve a sub-micron surface finish and superior cutting performance. With 2,200 exhibitors and 130,000 visitors – EMO remains a key event in the cutting tool makers calendar and is the perfect opportunity to showcase the legends who are creating superior cutting tools.<\/p>\n
Ralph van Hoorn, Managing Director at Van Hoorn Carbide and first time Judge said, “Technology is moving forward faster than ever, demanding more and more of the tool grinders of today. Designing and grinding these great products demands for a combination of great ideas combined with technical knowhow and top class machinery. Thanks to ANCA and their customers, revolutionary new ideas have come to practice making our technology move forwards.\u201d<\/p>\n
ANCA will also launch the much anticipated ToolRoom RN34 software package at Hall 6, Booth J35. ToolRoom plays a crucial role in enabling tool grinders to design and execute high quality cutting tools. Specialising in complex cutting tool geometries for the aerospace, die mould and power generation industry, the latest package can design and manufacture complex tool geometries as well as balance them for optimal cutting conditions. New is the endmill cycles for ballnose and corner radius, tool balancing and next generation fluting cycles.<\/p>\n
Pat continued, \u201cAll finalists from last year were of a very high standard and demonstrated a deep understanding for tool geometry as well as taking full use of ANCA\u2019s software. We congratulate the winner CONTOUR360, and other finalists Daily Grind Industrial Tool, Acu Twist, Miltera, SAN Engineering and Kazimieruk for their efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles R. Day, Vice President and General Manager at CONTOUR360 and winner of 2018\u2019s competition said, \u201cIn the two years I\u2019ve been with the CONTOUR360\u00b0 organisation \u2013 I have told everybody that would listen (and even some who wouldn\u2019t) how over-the-top this company\u2019s toolmaking ability is! Steve Hutchins and Mario Ercolani are responsible for the submission and two of the most talented and capable toolmakers I have ever met! And they represent an entire organisation of others just like them!\u201d<\/p>\n
To find the Tool of the Year, ANCA will hold a competition for customers to submit their favourite tool with the winners being judged and announced live at EMO. The prize is a trip for two to our headquarters in Melbourne, Australia to see firsthand how the technology is created at ANCA and meet the team who are dedicated to finding even better solutions for our customers. The winner also receives a copy of the latest ToolRoom RN34 software release.<\/p>\n
At EMO the top five tools will be judged on the following criteria<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u2022 Best surface finish in Ra (roughness average) value on the flute or gash surface<\/p>\n \u2022 The tool the that is closest to the nominal tolerance as stated on the drawing in terms of diameter and profile (i.e. if the tolerance on diameter is +\/- 0.010mm and the tool is measured to 0.005 then this will rank favourably)<\/p>\n \u2022 Tool that has been ground to the tightest tolerance as per the drawing (i.e. the tool with the lowest tolerance will rank favourably)<\/p>\n \u2022 Level of complexity (i.e. in terms of the number of steps, profiles will rank favourably)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANCA’s industry first competition is back with the 2019 winner to be announced live at EMO, Germany. Last year the industry welcomed the opportunity to show off their skills with almost 30 entries received from across the world being seen by over 122 thousand fans generating 3,000 comments and reactions on social media.ANCA’s industry first<\/p>\n