Tool Monitoring Smooths Low-RPM Cuts in Hard Aerospace Materials

摘要

Caron Engineering's TMAC MP has been putting tool monitoring to work for years, but its "sawtooth algorithm" now meets a specific challenge in airplane engine machining. "First of all, aerospace material is very challenging to machine," says Rob Caron, founder and president of Caron Engineering. He begins a rundown of the challenges a machinist confronts in hogging out an aerospace part. When it comes to, say, engine components, the material might be any number of hard, difficult-to-machine alloys: titanium, Monel, Hastelloy or Inconel.