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 <strong>2024</strong>. 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 ® <strong>2024</strong> TO ARRIVE Hall 17, Stand 240 CAD/CAM developer OPEN MIND Technologies will be exhibiting at MACH <strong>2024</strong> 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 <strong>2024</strong> 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 <strong>Manufacturing</strong> 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 <strong>2024</strong>. 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 <strong>2024</strong>, 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 <strong>Manufacturing</strong> <strong>Machinery</strong> <strong>World</strong>, <strong>April</strong> <strong>2024</strong>
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