Technical information
This reference section is built around what you can see at the machine: first the mark on the part, then the state of the cutting edge, and finally the behaviour of the chip. For every case there is a cause and a course of action, from the cheapest fix to the most expensive.
The damage atlas is the anchor page: it describes how to tell one type of edge damage from another. The pages for individual operations build on it.
Ten states of the cutting edge you will meet in any operation: what it looks like, what it leads to, why it happens and what to do about it.
Open →Seventeen cases starting from what you can see at the machine: marks on the part, the state of the edge, the behaviour of the chip — symptom, cause, what to do.
Open →Wear, chipping, thermal cracks, built-up edge, vibration, flatness and chip throw — with the impact and thermal cycle on every tooth taken into account.
Open →The inner and outer insert work under different conditions — hence the breakdown: cracks, scoring on the body, hole diameter, vibration, long chips.
Open →The zero pass, chip evacuation, threading direction, three infeed methods and tables of depths and pass counts by pitch.
Open →Every product page has its own grade table with a “where this works” column written in plain language.
P/M/K/N/S/H groups, cutting character, eight coating technologies.
Turning inserts →PVD, CVD and uncoated; the mark in each cell encodes the cutting character.
Indexable milling cutters →Four insert clamping systems shown exploded, part by part.
Turning toolholders →