High-Feed Milling System Optimizes Mold Milling Operations

Milling challenging mold materials like tough steels, stainless steels, superalloys and titanium cause built-up or notched edges and broken inserts that increase tooling costs and cause unexpected downtime. To overcome the difficulties of these ISO P, M and S materials, the next-generation Seco Tool High Feed SP milling system features a combination of dedicated cutting geometries and insert grades, as well as optimized lead angles, that are combined to boost material removal rates, maximize chip evacuation and extend tool life.

Featuring versatility, one High Feed SP tool handles a complete range of high-feed milling operations and materials, Seco Tool says. The tool optimizes such operations as copy milling, ramping, pocketing, face milling and plunging to further reduce tooling inventories. Users optimize milling performance while eliminating the need to switch among numerous tools to implement various machining strategies and part materials.

“Premature tool wear increases job costs and leads to unexpected machine downtime that lengthens production time,” Benoît Patriarca, global product manager high feed milling at Seco Tools, says. “The combination of dedicated cutting geometries and grades with optimized leading angles of the High Feed SP system allow for faster machining to shorten job turnaround times, while also providing a superior price-to-performance ratio.”

Designed for ease of use, the rHigh Feed SP milling tools are said to provide simple foolproof insert indexing that prevents operator mistakes, unexpected machine downtime and scrapped parts. Plus, users can quickly access product information through the Seco data matrix code scanning.

Seco offers a comprehensive range of High Feed SP tool sizes. The range includes:

•  SP10: two geometries, 10 grades, dia 32-63 mm + inch equivalents.
•  SP14: two geometries, 10 grades, dia 50-100 mm + inch equivalents.
•  SP18: two geometries, 10 grades, dia 63-160 mm + inch equivalents.