ZOLLER presetting, tool management and tool storage solutions play a vital role at Eagle Manufacturing, a thriving student-run manufacturing business out of Brown County High School in Nashville, Indiana.

In high speed, tight tolerance machining operations, eliminating the potential for human error can be a competitive advantage in an increasingly rigid marketplace.

By implementing smart tool management solutions by ZOLLER, which provides interfaces to a variety of software providers and machines, SIM Automation GmbH in Heilbad Heiligenstadt has enjoyed six figure savings and established data consistency across its entire production process.

Diamond tools are a specialty of the ROT company — Reiner Oehlmann Tools from the Lower Saxon town of Celle, Germany — especially for industrial grinding tasks. In addition to extremely high precision with tolerances of just a few micrometers, completing batches of just a single tool is a major challenge — especially in light of the market’s demand for a good price/performance ratio.

Recent changes in automotive technology include a move away from hydraulic to electric steering systems. For Star SU, that means much tighter tolerances in the manufacture of rack milling cutters at their Tawas, Michigan plant. Today’s steering systems contain highly engineered rack and pinion components.

The complexity and precision of these components require cutting tool measurement techniques not found on standard inspection equipment. Recently, Andy Kobs, Star SU cutting tool designer,…

Northern Tool, a division of Star Cutter Co. (Farmington Hills, MI), is well-known for designing and producingspecial carbide cutting tools—often for automotive powertrain production—that accomplish more than one cutting operation in a single pass. With its CNC tool grinders, OD grinders, roughing OD grinders, and edge prep machines, plus blank prep machines and a cutoff and laser-etching machine, the company produces carbide drills, reamers, end mills, and form tools.

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H. Beck Machinery Ltd. (Windsor, ON, Canada) specializes in high-accuracy, large-scale CNC custom machining using 10 large machines from boring mills to a six-axis Droop + Rein mill and a five-axis Fidia machining center. ZOLLER tool management systems have saved H. Beck Machinery machine time and permitted longer untended machine operation in its machining of auto stamping dies from roughing to finishing.

Measuring tools can be a time-consuming task which cannot be neglected without compromising the quality of a company's products. A Swiss toolmaker is using a new machine said to combine speed, precision abd being able to perform several functions at the same time.

At its Fountain Inn, SC, plant, Bosch Rexroth produces many different axial piston hydraulic pumps and valve housings for its drive products for heavy equipment and agricultural applications. Controlling the cost of more than 900 different tool assemblies it uses is a major task. A ZOLLER Tool Management System is how it’s done.

Bosch Rexroth in Fountain Inn has two production buildings with more than 90 CNC machine tools, mostly DMG and Mori Seiki machining centers operating 24 hours a day, 7…