Seco tooling, for this particular component have been easily applied to others.” Through Jackie’s work, the shop has realized that it gets the most significant results when incorporating Seco tooling throughout all a part’s various opera- tions, not just one or two. Such success- es range from drilling 0.375" (9.5-mm) diameter holes at 18×D in just 6 sec to thread milling holes at 9000 rpm with Seco thread mills. This process can be done in seconds rather than in minutes using standard straight-flute thread mills. They can also drill 0.062" (1.6-mm) diameter holes in 1 sec using Seco’s solid-carbide Feedmax drills, as opposed to 40 sec with standard drills and having to peck.
All that knowledge and expertise they then pass on to us for improving our processes.” To illustrate, he cited the shop’s incorporation of high-feed milling and plunge milling. With Seco tool technology coupled
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• Specializing in profile grinding for a variety of applications
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• Swiss Style Machining on a multi-spindle platform
“Jackie’s part” benefited from careful attention to process improvement and can now be completed in 3 hrs vs. the 5 hrs it previously required.
“In the last three years, our use of Seco tooling has really taken off, and we rely heavily on them for applica- tion advice,” said Mikelson. “We have confidence in their tooling because they conduct extensive testing on it, doing all the time-consuming legwork for me.
• Swiss Style Machining on a multi-spindle platform
• Low to high volume production applications
• Low to high volume production applications
• Keep multiple setups on the machine for fast changeover
• Keep multiple setups on the machine for fast changeover