KV Tooling takes out first place at ANCA’s industry first ANCA Tool of the Year
KV
Tooling took out the coveted first place in ANCA's industry
first competition, ‘ANCA Tool of the Year’. The cutting tool industry has
cultivated and refined their craft over the years to design beautiful tools,
applying science to achieve a sub-micron surface finish and superior cutting
performance.
Pat Boland, ANCA Co-founder said “All finalists were of a very high standard
and demonstrated a deep understanding for tool geometry as well as taking full
use of ANCA’s software to design unique and special cutting tools. We
congratulate the winner KV Tooling, runner up Eshed Tools and Zakłady
Mechaniczne Kazimieruk who we gave a special creativity award for daring Bat
Man design.”
Brian Beland, President at KV Tooling Systems said on winning the award:
“Competing with world class tool grinding shops from around the world with same
grinding machines and winning - regardless of the size of the shop - is
something we are particularly proud of.”
“Our entry was a very complex tool with many features incorporated into one
tool. We designed the cutting tool to satisfy a customer’s problem, where our
one tool replaced a machining requirement that previously required six tools.
The customer was very happy with the production gains and for us to submit to
ANCA Tool of The Year. We believe winning the competition makes our company
more marketable and will give us great exposure and hopefully expand our
customer base,” concluded Brian.
Eshed Tools entered
the competition to share their special tool manufacturing skill set with ANCA
users. Shmulik Arbel, Production Manager commented that they were proud of
their expertise that means they can “produce special geometries that are
difficult to achieve and save our clients expensive production time.”
Reflecting on coming runners up Shmulik continued, “Taking out this prize
creates a great opportunity for global exposure through the Tool of the
Year competition. For us ESHED tools as a small and growing tool manufacturer,
world wide recognition is important and will help us expand beyond the
local market.”
Zakłady
Mechaniczne Kazimieruk on winning the ‘Most Creative Tool’
said: “We thought outside the box and were motivated to inspire the grinding
community with our entry. During everyday work our team make a lot of
customized tools so we wanted to make something fresh and unique – even to us.
Furthermore, entering was a great test for our grinding skills. We relished the
opportunity of seeing others craftmanship and the entries in the tool of the
year competition demonstrated to us the range and type of cutting tools that
are possible.”
The
top five tools were judged on the following criteria:
·
Best surface finish in Ra (roughness average) value on the flute or gash
surface
·
The tool the that is closest to the nominal tolerance as stated on the
drawing in terms of diameter and profile (i.e. if the tolerance on diameter is
+/- 0.010mm and the tool is measured to 0.005 then this will rank favourably)
·
Tool that has been ground to the tightest tolerance as per the drawing
(i.e. the tool with the lowest tolerance will rank favourably)
·
Level of complexity (i.e. in terms of the number of steps, profiles will
rank favourably)