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that we might not have, instead of just bringing in an insert and saying this is the best insert and here are 300 of them. Seco would come in and say, ‘This is an insert, we will show you the best way to run it, and we have other suggestions that might help you with your manufacturing process.’” Michael Alkire, manufacturers’ representative for Seco, visits the shop at least weekly. Vacca said the ongoing contact makes testing new tools easy. “Instead of us working our man- hours trying to prove something out,” he said, “Mike brings new ideas to the table and is able to test them right there as they are being applied.”
Alkire described a typical new product application test: “We were doing grooves with a Seco X4 tangential tool. Before- hand, Sterling had to spend extra money on a special 0.031" [0.8-mm]-wide grooving tool. We had a standard X4 tool in that size with four edges on it, while the special had only two edges. They were getting 24 grooves per edge on the prior tool and we got somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 with the X4.
Typical setup trays at Sterling Machinery are well orga- nized through a tool crib with 99% of the items bar-coded for scanning managed by CribMaster software. “Years ago we had our tools scattered all over the shop, and by the time everybody gathered what they needed for a job it was a lot of lost time,” said Bob Martin. Prior to establish- ing the tool crib, Sterling received 52 tooling invoices per week; now it handles one.
The beauty of that particular tool is that one holder accepts different-size blade widths. When Sterling used the other tools, they had to change the toolholders to change widths.”
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