Test data shows that Edgecam’s Waveform roughing strategy for turning (
www.edgecam.com) gives an overall material removal rate that is three-times greater than traditional machining when used in conjunction with Seco’s latest Duratomic tooling technology.
Following the success of Milling Waveform technology, Edgecam’s latest release introduces a brand-new turning cycle — Rough Waveform Turning — in which the tool-path maintains a constant cutting load, allowing significantly faster cutting and prolonging tool life. Edgecam’s Wesley Tonks says that in trials conducted with the latest generation of Seco’s Duratomic insert technology in combination with Edgecam Waveform, the metal removal rate increased from 134.4cm3 per min to 448cm3 per min. The tests were made cutting EN8 unalloyed medium-carbon steel on a Mazak Integrex 200-lll machine tool.
Seco’s sales and marketing manager, Mike Fleming, says Duratomic technology increases a cutting tool’s toughness and abrasion resistance, adding that “although Duratomic and Waveform can be completely stand-alone solutions, they complement each other perfectly, as the trials demonstrate.”
Mr Tonks adds: “The Waveform roughing strategy is a high-speed machining technique that maintains a constant tool load by ensuring consistent tool engagement with the material. The tool moves in a smooth path to avoid sharp changes in direction.
"As well as reducing cycle times and increasing the material removal rate, Waveform also improves tool life (through less cutting force and better swarf management), lengthens machine maintenance cycles and keeps a constant chip load; it also cuts deeper, faster and smoother.”