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Faster with lower power demand extremely high feeds guaranteeing efficient
It is commonly believed that machining at full metal removal. This energy-saving shallow-cut
capacity is an effective means for improving “fast” technology provides a good alternative
productivity. Rough milling deep cavities with to power-consuming deep-cut “slow”
the use of extended flute cutters or face milling technology. High feed milling (HFM), which can
by large-sized shell mills at a large axial depth be successfully realized on modern, light-duty
of cut, when stock per pass is considerable, are fast moving machines, has delivered a serious
typical examples of such an approach. These and sustainable alternative to the traditional yet
operations provide a high metal removal rate power-consuming approach.
(MRR) but are power-intensive, as milling under
such conditions requires a significant cutting HFM (“fast feed”) tools feature specific
force and necessitates the utilization of machine geometry. ISCAR offers them in all of the
tools with heavy-duty main and low feed drives. company’s milling lines: indexable, solid carbide
In this case, high efficiency is ensured by and Multi-Master (a family of assembled tools
removing material of maximum possible cross- with replaceable cutting heads produced from
section at low to medium feeds. cemented carbides).
At the same time, another rough milling In addition, ISCAR has introduced inserts
technique proposes a diametrically opposite that, when mounted on general-use indexable
principle: the combination of a rapidly running endmills or face mills, turn into HFM tools.
tool with a shallow depth of cut. In this case, Such a transformation is a way to simply
power consumption drops dramatically with no adjust various cutters from ISCAR’s
loss in productivity – the tool works at standard line for fast feed milling.
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