Included among the Walter and Ewag innovations for tool machining will be developments in Ewag tool insert grinding and Walter tool measuring, Walter Ewag UK reports – and both set new standards in insert production and the measurement of complex tools. Making its first public debut, the six-axis Ewag Compact Line is a high-precision, compact and flexible machine for the grinding - including peripheral grinding - of inserts in tungsten carbide, cermet, ceramic, PCBN and PCD. The Ewag Compact Line’s ‘three-in-one’ dressing unit ensures grinding wheel concentricity and high process reproducibility, plus offers wheel dressing, regeneration and ‘crushing’ in a single package.
Also on the stand (after its debut earlier this year), Walter’s new Heliset Plus manual measuring device promises to help optimise the erosion (machining) times of complex tools by up to 30 per cent by being ‘integrated’ into the tool production process. Heliset Plus replaces stand-alone tool measurement operations previously carried out remotely in the tool preparation area or in the erosion machine, directed by an intuitive user interface and touch screen operation.
