May 2011 - Amtil

Industry News
Walter expands its range of services
with a Smartphone app
From accessing important tool data to placing orders online
in the Walter Toolshop: Walter Tools & More app enables
users to do both while on the move. Users can, with their
iPhone, determine cutting parameters for tools for the
required operation and also place their orders online conveniently.
This new app developed by Walter is available
free of charge in 23 languages.
Calculating cutting data while being away from your
desktop PC, comparing the cost efficiency of two tool solutions,
ordering tools and accessing rich online content from
Walter is made easy. The new smart-phone application Walter
Tools & More makes all this quick, convenient and possible
while on the go. Tools & More provides a user-friendly interface
and a wide range of functions. "With Walter Tools &
More, customers benefit from our comprehensive machining
expertise while they are on the move", says Andreas Evertz,
Chief Executive Officer at Walter AG. "This demonstrates
our aim to provide our customers, besides excellent products
our comprehensive service which makes them even more
efficient in their operations."
With Tools & More, Walter is the only manufacturer on
the market with a smartphone application for working out
detailed cutting data calculations.
The app can be used to calculate the parameters for:
• face, shoulder and slot milling processes
• hole making, including both drilling and boring
• turning (ISO turning and grooving).
For these operations, you can calculate the torque, driving
power and machining volume, main cutting time, cutting
Gripping technology
force and also chip thickness. The calculator also takes the
material group, rake angle, machine efficiency and wear
factor into consideration.
The savings calculator provides quick and easy cost
comparison between two tool solutions. One can compare
properties like: costs for indexable inserts and bodies, the
machine setting and the presetting hours, the spare machine
capacity, as well as the savings per component and
per batch or year.
Using Walter Tools & More, users can access online
resources, a comprehensive package of web-based applications
and websites. The online resources include, among
others, the TEC + CCS software from Walter, which assist
the user with targeted search for the most economical solid
carbide tool or HSS boring tool, threading tool or milling
cutter from the competence brands Walter Titex and Walter
Prototyp. After entering the relevant parameters such
as application, material, machine and cutting data, TEC +
CCS determines the best available tool solution – including
possible alternatives. The result shown comprises not simply
the cutting data, but also an associated cost calculation.
Using the app, the user can order the right tools online via
the Walter Toolshop. This solution provides a time-saving
ordering process, access to entire range of standard tools,
up-to-date stock information as well as a clear overview of
the ordering and billing history. Walter Toolshop is available
24/7 throughout the year. This solution also prevents
an order from being entered twice.
Walter Australia Pty Ltd - 03 8793 1000
www.walter-tools.com
During the 41st International Robotics
Symposium, Heinz-Dieter Schunk,
CEO of Schunk, received the
Engelberger Robotics Award. The
Engelberger Award is considered to
be the most prestigious award in the
robotics field. It honours individuals
that have provided outstanding
contributions in areas of technology
development, application, education
and leadership.
The award is named after Joseph
F. Engelberger, the founder of industrial
robotics and father of the
modern robotics industry.
The prize has been awarded by
the Robotic Industries Association
Heinz-Dieter Schunk with his award
agencies make up the 250 members
of the RIA.
Schunk is a pioneer in the
field of gripping technology. He
recognised early on, that gripping
would play a leading role
in automation and robotics. He
was one of the first engineers to
develop standardised gripping
modules.
Today, Schunk is considered
to be the worldwide competence
leader in clamping technology and
gripping systems with the Schunk
program having more than 10,000
standard products.
As a pioneer in modular robotics,
(RIA) trade organisation in North America since 1977.
Leading robot manufacturers, suppliers and system
integrators, operators, research groups and consulting
the company offers a vast modular system
from which various robot structures for industry and
research can be individually configurated.
14 May 2011 Australian Manufacturing Technology