4 Questions To Ask When Moving to Live Tooling

Live tooling is well known as an excellent option for performing secondary operations on turned parts. They eliminate the losses of precision and time from moving a part to a milling machine, tube process inserts making turning machines much more productive. Additionally, they make finishing deep features in turned parts much easier.

According to Platinum Tooling President Preben Hansen, the variety of applications that can be performed with a machine is equally impressive. “I have seen a dozen live tools on a single turret, with that shop able to produce parts of mill-turn complexity with a single-spindle turning machine,” he says. Yet the sheer variety of available live tooling can give shops choice paralysis. “A lot of people don’t understand how many different products are available. Live tooling can be designed to handle different materials and different physical spaces, as well as different speeds and feeds.”

With all of these options, choosing the right one can be daunting. shoulder milling cutters In a conversation with Hansen about the factors influencing live tooling, he offered these four questions for guiding the choice:

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