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HIGH PRECISION CUTTING TOOL SYSTEMS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF WORLD-CLASS POWERTRAIN COMPONENTS - Emphasis on: Illustrations of quality enhancing, yet cost saving machining. Developing cutting tool systems for engine components, such as valve train, camshaft, crankshaft, cylinder bore and connecting rods. Developing cutting tool systems for transmission cases and transmission valve bodies. Flexible manufacturing, high speed machining, predictable cutting performance, a minimum of machine down time - challenges to be met only by tooling systems suppliers. Advanced cutting tool materials. Tooling accessories as part of improving machine tool accuracy. Outlining a quality machining periphery and recommending optimum machining parameters.

Producing good parts right at the outset, upon inception of a new manufacturing system and then continuously producing error-free parts, is a formidable challenge. It can only be met if manufacturing realizes that perpetual attention has to be paid to the most minor machining details and if unconventional management techniques and engineering principles are adopted. Systematic applications of advanced machining systems and true knowledge of statistical process control and concurrent engineering are at the core of first part, good part, zero-defect machining.

In a shrinking world, there is the chance to reap the benefits of globalized strategies. Going around the world to purchase, design, build and market products internationally and jointly, offers immense possibilities for carmakers and suppliers. The two concepts of mass production with cost/price orientation and customized production with service orientation have merged to mass-customizing, affecting automakers and their suppliers worldwide alike.

Carmakers are adopting “agile” manufacturing principles in an effort to achieve product variety in style and volume and doing so, within shortest possible changeover times to minimize the response time to demanding customers. For the manufacturing floor, agility means to be ultra-flexible in tooling and automation. Cycle-time reduction, fast through-put, high machine uptime, minimum machining passes, predictable machining results and the first part - good part principle are at the core of it all. In addition, machining processes have to be adaptable to transferlines and CNC-cells, or a combination thereof and if possible, reusable for new projects to assure a short and economical pipeline to the next generation of products. Several new, advanced machining processes in metalcutting embrace “agility” and integrate its manufacturing principle. They complete the technology chain of machine tool - toolholding - cutting tool, to form “agile” processes.