The education and training resources offered by Seco Tools (UK) Ltd, Alcester
(www.secotools.com) for metal-cutting professionals has been extended by a new book written by engineering guru Jan-Eric Stahl, who is Professor of Production Materials Engineering at Lund University, Sweden.
The book — Metal Cutting: Theories and Models — will be of particular interest to manufacturing professionals (especially users of cutting tools), teachers of metal-cutting courses, Masters students and PhD students. Commenting on his rationale behind writing the book, Mr Stahl says: “Knowledge and understanding of metal cutting has, until now, been fragmented. My intention in writing the book was to bring all of these disparate strands together.”
Mr Stahl has worked closely with Seco for many years, and has played a pivotal role in educating company employees (at home and overseas) on metal cutting. The book is an important addition to Seco’s Technical Education Programmes, which offer professionals and specialists in the metal-cutting industry in-depth education and training in efficient and effective cutting-tool application and use; and while Mr Stahl describes his book as being more “theoretical than practical”, there is much for the practitioner to digest in its pages.
“The book explains in detail inter-related issues such as mechanical forces, temperatures and tribological loads. It also explains how, through a greater understanding of these phenomena and their interaction with each other, improved tool geometry design and cutting-tool manufacture — including the choice of tooling materials — can be achieved.” Copies of the book are available from Seco Tools (UK).