Seco continues its strong focus on educating, training and informing those in the manufacturing industries with the release of four metal cutting books in a new series called \u201cMetal Cutting \u2013 Best Practices.\u201d The books cover current trends and techniques in metal cutting and will be published throughout 2015.
\nPatrick De Vos, corporate technical education manager of Seco Tools, AB and Jan-Eric St\u00e5hl, a professor in the Division of Production and Materials Engineering at Lund University, Sweden, collaborated to write \u201cMetal Cutting \u2013 Best Practices.\u201d The series offers practical guidelines to help customers tackle metal cutting challenges and achieve maximum productivity in their machine shops. The books are each approximately 200 pages and provide in-depth information on a single subject. The four topics covered are: tool deterioration; machinability and workpiece materials; cutting materials and geometries; and tool compensation techniques.
\nThis new series complements Seco\u2019s previously published books on metal cutting. In 2012, the company first partnered with professor St\u00e5hl to translate his book entitled \u201cMetal Cutting \u2013 Theories and Models\u201d from Swedish into English. With nine chapters and more than 600 pages, \u201cMetal Cutting \u2013 Theories and Models\u201d begins with an introduction to metal cutting and takes readers through an in-depth, scientific description of each step in the entire metal cutting process. This comprehensive book is included in Seco\u2019s STEP (Seco Technical Education Programmes) package and used by numerous professors in universities throughout the world.
\nIn response to customers\u2019 desires for more practical application information on metal cutting, in 2014, De Vos and St\u00e5hl published \u201cMetal Cutting \u2013 Theories in Practice.\u201d At just 171 pages, this book covers the same topics as \u201cMetal Cutting \u2013 Theories and Models\u201d, but omits much of the mathematical and scientific information behind the theories. Instead, it bridges the gap between the science of metal cutting and the practical application of the theories, and is frequently used by both customers and students in the classroom setting.
\nAccording to De Vos, the upcoming release of \u201cMetal Cutting \u2013 Best Practices\u201d offers another layer to how Seco presents information to customers, others in the manufacturing sector and the academic world. \u201cIt is extremely practical and based on years of experience manufacturing cutting tools and applying them in various applications in customers\u2019 shops. I expect these books to be highly valued by customers as well as by professors and students, especially in the more hands-on laboratory setting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seco continues its strong focus on educating, training and informing those in the manufacturing industries with the release of four metal cutting books in a new series called \u201cMetal Cutting \u2013 Best Practices.\u201d The books cover current trends and techniques in metal cutting and will be published throughout 2015. Patrick De Vos, corporate technical education<\/p>\n