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    Unveiling the Impact: How Choosing the Wrong Type of Cutting Tool Affects Tool Life

    When choosing tools, many people will follow the standard specifications of the tool manufacturer, and usually, there will be no problems. However, differences in coatings, brands, or material differences still can make the cutting quality unstable, in this case, entering the mass production stage will incur many unnecessary costs.

    Introduction

    How to judge if the tool is worn?

    此處可至後台加上本圖片的描述

    For example, unsuitable tools or materials will gather chips or sticky chips during the cutting process. From the above graph, we can see the symmetry of the four edges. The lower right side with higher cutting force produces a signal that like Rib Eye due to sticky chips.

    Such signal not only causes poor chip evacuation at this cutting edge but also increases the temperature, which means that the tool life of this cutting edge will become very short. Therefore, from the polar plot polar above, the machine tool master can clearly judge whether the parameters need to be improved or directly replaced with a suitable tool.


    Difference Between Bending Moment and Torsion

    According to the above data, the bending moment (left picture) can clearly know whether the tool needs to adjust parameters or replace different tools in the process from tool wear, so as to reduce the unstable quality in mass production, also the tool life can be accurately calculated by knowing the increasing amount of tool wear.

    The torsion (right picture) makes it difficult to judge the state of the tool at each life stage, or even the reference value of the load on the machine tool. From the above examples, it is clear how important it is to have the right measurements and signals, making the difference in tool selection more obviously.


    Types of cutting tools

    In addition to testing whether the type of cutting tools is correct through the smart cutting tool, it can also be judged by the characteristics of the material, such as normal temperature hardness, high-temperature hardness, wear resistance and toughness and the material is divided into high carbon tool steel, high-speed steel, non-alloy cast iron, sintered carbide, and ceramics, etc., the materials of various tools have different characteristics and uses. Understanding these is very important for selecting suitable processing materials and tools.

    【read more】How to choose suitable cutting tool: cutting tool material and performance

    Important factors affecting tool life and abrasion

    The same tool has differences in coatings, brands, and materials. If we just take one factor in consideration, the workpiece may have problems of unstable quality. Therefore, except for the types of cutting tools and assistance of smart cutting tools mentioned above, it is necessary to know other important factors that cause the reduction of tool life and abrasion to avoid the appearance of poor-quality products.

    【read more】It turns out that these are important factors affecting tool life and abrasion

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