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News Release from: Advanced Carbide Tooling | Subject: Beverston Engineering
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 30 May 2002
Proactive manufacturer aims for
long-term savings
For its parting-off work Beverston Engineering turned to Advanced Carbide Tooling to identify and implement the best solution.
Choosing the most effective tooling for a job and looking for cost-savings in the long term, rather than buying the cheapest available at the time, is one of the significant changes in business philosophy which has brought continued expansion at Beverston Engineering The St Helens-based contract manufacturer has re-assessed all business practices and manufacturing processes in recent years and is determinedly applying a proactive rather than reactive business philosophy
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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For its parting-off work, the company has turned to Advanced Carbide Tooling to identify and implement the best solution - not just the tooling itself, but also the best speeds, feeds and programming method to be used.
As a result, Beverston is now using a Mircona parting-off system, which has not only achieved the flexibility and benefits required across the range of materials machined, but also across different operations.
Although Beverston predominantly supplies components to aerospace, it serves a variety of other industries, too, which entails working in a very wide range of materials including stainless steel, aluminium and bronze, as well as exotic aerospace materials such as Nimonics, Hastelloy and titanium.
"Most of our jobs are short runs", says managing director Rod Wah, 'so we try to use one grade of insert that suits all these materials".
"Compared to the tooling we were previously using, the Mircona tools have enabled us to increase feeds by up to 40% and tool life has increased by up to 50% on some materials", said Wah.
"We also use the part-off tools for other turning operations such as grooving and back-chamfering, which is very useful on waist diameters and can often mean one less tool in the turret".
In addition to the improved performance, he says the Mircona tooling has also led to significant cost savings.
"This is also indicative of the change in culture at Beverston.
We once would have sought the cheapest inserts on offer - we now look for the best available for the job in hand and the long-term cost savings".
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