Manufacturers of tooling for CNC routers offer a bewildering array of choices. Once you get past basic issues like choosing upcut (maximum chip evacuation), downcut (clean top surface edge), ...

As composites practitioners well know, tooling for composite parts is a challenge. Metal tools are the most robust option and support rate production, but they need to be carefully engineered to match ...

A European manufacturer of powder-metal (P/M) components could only produce a few parts before friction heated the compaction tooling enough that it would bind. The heat generated during powder ...

Beverage bottle blowmold cavities (above) and bottle preform mold components (below) can benefit from diamond-like carbon materials applied in the chamber shown in the top photo. Pins are among the ...

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Charts depict interaction of non-uniform substrate and geometry interface characteristics, upper segments, with coating characteristics, lower segment. Substrate, geometry and coating package ...

End mills coated with ta-C. Rockwell indent of ta-C coating shows excellent adhesion. “Physical vapor deposition” (PVD) coatings are widely used to treat in cutting tools because of the wear-resistant ...