Manufacturing Machinery World April 2024

HORN TO PRESENT NEW TOOLS FOR BORING, MILLING,
THREAD WHIRLING AND TURNING Hall 6, Stand 210
Paul Horn, the solid carbide tooling, carbide
insert and tool holder manufacturer
headquartered in Tübingen, Germany, has
supplied more than 200,000 special tooling
solutions over the years and currently offers
25,000 standard products, including five due
to be introduced to the UK and Irish markets
at MACH 2024. Wholly-owned subsidiary
Horn Cutting Tools will be on stand 6-210 to
explain the reasons behind the launches and
will also exhibit a broad cross section of the
manufacturer's extensive tooling range.
An addition to the Horn Supermini
boring, grooving and chamfering system will
be announced, a variant with a precisionground
rake face designed for producing
ultra-fine bores. The ground cutting edge is
free from notches when viewed at a
magnification of x200 and the tool can be
used to machine components having an
inside diameter from just 0.3 mm. Sharp
insert geometry ensures process reliability,
even with very small infeed and cutting feed
rates. The specially developed coating is
suitable for stainless steels, non-ferrous
metals and other metals.
Horn has developed a new, solid carbide
milling cutter range for machining stainless
steels, widely used in the food, chemical and
pharmaceutical sectors, as well as in the
watchmaking and other precision
engineering industries. Due to their
geometry and efficient chip breaking, the
mills are suitable for machining numerous
other materials as well. The combination of
substrate, macro and micro geometry, and
IG3 coating exhibits high cutting
performance and long tool life. The coating in
particular offers high temperature resistance
for machining steels alloyed with chromium,
nickel and molybdenum.
A new, high-performance, carbide grade
from Horn, the SG3P, presents enhanced
possibilities in terms of performance and tool
life when whirling medical screws. It enables
shorter cycle times for thread production
thanks to higher cutting values, including
when processing materials that traditionally
are difficult to machine. In addition, the
combination of an ultra-fine-grain carbide
powder and a high-temperature-resistant
coating raises process reliability and
improves component quality. In-house
coating of the inserts enables fast delivery
times and the carbide grade is available for
all standard Horn thread whirling systems.
A long overhang can cause a turning tool
to oscillate when boring internal geometries.
In addition to causing chatter marks on the
surface of the machined component, the
vibrations can lead to a significant reduction
in tool life. For unfavourable length-todiameter
ratios, even damped boring bars
may vibrate under certain conditions. To
help mitigate these difficulties, Horn has
introduced a boring bar with adjustable
damping so it can be set to match the
amplitude of the oscillation generated by the
machining process. Precise adjustment
enables vibration-free turning, resulting in
better surface quality of the machined
component and a significant increase in
insert life.
Horn is also launching a new tool range
for manufacturing brake discs economically.
It includes solid CBN (cubic boron nitride)
ISO inserts, mainly used for cast iron
machining, and CBN-tipped full-radius and
shaped inserts. The grade has no metallic
bonding phase and therefore has the highest
hot hardness of all cutting materials. Horn
offers the solid CBN ISO S turning insert
with eight cutting edges for roughing and
finishing. Cutting speeds of well over 1,000
m/min, depths of cut of several millimetres
and feed rates up to 0.7 mm/rev are typical
values. Stable tool carriers are included in the
offering. Depending on the operation and
metal removal rate, in excess of 1,000 cast
iron brake discs can be machined per insert
corner.
www.phorn.co.uk
hyperMILL ® 2024 TO ARRIVE Hall 17, Stand 240
CAD/CAM developer OPEN MIND
Technologies will be exhibiting at MACH
2024 with its biggest-ever stand at the UK’s
showpiece manufacturing event. Stand 240 in
Hall 17, OPEN MIND Technologies UK will
be presenting the innovative technologies of
its hyperMILL® CAD/CAM suite with live
demonstrations of the latest 2024 Version that
is imminently set for release.
At MACH, OPEN MIND UK will highlight
its pioneering technologies for digital process
chains whilst showcasing its innovative
advancements for connected manufacturing,
automation, turning, Hummingbird MES and
solutions for additive manufacturing.
One of the latest innovations that is
gaining huge traction in the industry is the
new Hummingbird Manufacturing Execution
Systems (MES). The agile MES solution that
enables users to improve and streamline the
planning, control, automation and
optimisation of processes across
manufacturing operations will be presented
for the first time at MACH 2024. Too often, the
right information, data and materials are not
in the right place at the right time.
Hummingbird eases entry into the digitalised
world of manufacturing for customers with a
tailored solution that allows users to choose
the modules they require to gain complete
control of their processes - and then expand
the system step by step as needed.
The OPEN MIND UK team will also
present the latest hyperMILL® TURNING
Solutions that have expanded exponentially
since MACH 2022. The latest updates in
hyperMILL® TURNING Solutions include
technologies for turning, turn/mill and
mill/turn machines – making the suite ideal
for all corresponding machine configurations.
In Version 2024, hyperMILL® TURNING
developments will include CAD for CAM
functions for rotary contours, finishing paths
for grooving, a ‘remove rings’ function, a 2D
stretch command and a new tool turret
support that via hyperMILL® VIRTUAL
Machining can create a detailed map of all
tools in a turret to create a seamless NC code
simulation. The new enhancements will
simplify the creation of chamfers, contours,
radii and undercuts, create uniform
allowances for finishing when grooving,
reliably remove ring chips from components,
quickly and easily adapt parametric 2D
contours and much more. Furthermore,
Heidenhain CNC systems as well as Siemens
controls are now supported with the latest
mill/turn modules whilst the ‘Connected
Machining’ interface also supports FANUC
control systems. These updates identify the
exponential development rate and the
associated compatibility of hyperMILL®’s
TURNING suite with an ever-increasing
range of machine tool types.
www.openmind-tech.com
30 Manufacturing Machinery World, April 2024