Best Manufacturing Tips on Carbide Tools, Cutting Tools, Threading Tools & Boring Tools

 

Some Ways to rethink your strategy in this economy

1. Stop waiting for Clients to reach out to you. Improve your marketing efforts and offer samples and best prices to your customers

2. Do not always look for maximum profit; Work with your clients and settle with a mutually beneficial deal.

3. Create a video's on your website where clients can actually see your company and get a feel of all the Cutting tools & Threading Tools that would be supplied to them. Transparency is the key to success

4. Diversify your list of client and try and market your product in different parts of the world.

5. Cut Operational Costs to the maximum

6. Retain all your employees and may be work with them on a Part Time basis.

7. Be willing to change rapidly, this is the key to survive in any bad economy.

 

The best way to increase your presence in the web and build your brand is to start sharing your knowledge. Sharing information via blogs, videos, white papers are the best ways to share knowledge. Once you share your knowledge through blogs and videos, this creates a viral effect and other people share the information or comment on the information and your company presence on the web increases. The more information that is written the better it is as your targeted audience would have a very clear understanding that you are good at what you do.

Once they visit your website you need to clearly provide the required information they are looking for. You need to have very clear video's describing what your company is all about and your company could solve their problem. You will also need to have very clear landing pages to get their information and have to respond to them at the earliest.

At last what matters the most is the quality of tools and the price at which you sell them. Interested leads can be given sample tools and if the quality of tools and the price at which you sell them is great there is no doubt you will bag an order.

1]Trepanning tools are used in manufacture of Gun Barrels, Pipes for oil well drilling, Large Motor and Alternator shafts and such parts.

2] They save time,electric power/energy and material as compared with solid drilling/ boring.

3] They leave a core which can be used for analysing and making other parts while drilling expensive materials.

4] Trepanning is the only process available to manufacturers where in large and long holes have to be drilled.

5] They can be used for drilling large holes in small length parts too.

1] These tools are mainly used on conventional lathes and boring machines.

2] They are made in different grades and are suitable for machining components/parts of Alloy steel, low and medium carbon steel, Cast Iron, Aluminium and all non ferrous materials.

3] These of tools are used for machining components with square shoulders.

4] They are mainly used for turning, facing and boring operations.

5] They can be used for machining chamfers if a suitable angle is ground on the cutting edge.

6] These tools are used in manufacturing small, medium and heavy parts for Aerospace, Automobile, Earth moving, Power generation equipment and other industries.  

1] External Threading Tools:

These tools are used to cut screw threads on the outside diameter of components/parts such as bolts, shafts, pipes, castings and forgings made from ferrous and non ferrous materials.

These tools can be used to cut screw threads in Metric, British, Acme and other standards.

2] Internal Threading Tools:

These tools are used to cut screw threads on the internal diameters of components/parts such as nuts, pipes, collars, castings and forgings made from ferrous and non ferrous materials.

These tools can cut screw threads in Metric, British, Acme and other standards.

The major diameter of the thread has to be machined prior to external threading and the root diameter of the thread has to be machined prior to internal threading.

It is very important to provide an undercut on the outside or inside diameters  before carrying out thread cutting as this allows the threading tool to pass into the undercut just after carrying out threading to the required length and before it returns to the starting point.

While cutting threads it is essential to use a cooling medium such as straight oils or oil in an emulsion with water.

Thread cutting is always done in multiple passes of depths of about 0.1 mm or 0.004 inch to reduce load on the lathe as both cutting edges are working together, maximise tool life and achieve proper thread form to meet gauging requirements.

Overhang of the threading tools is a major factor that contributes to vibration, poor cutting conditions and poor thread form.

As the pitch of threads vary from 0.5 mm to 5.0 mm the rotational speed on conventional lathes are kept low. However, higher speeds can be used in CNC Lathes as the tool return is preset on the machine and controlled.

Care should be taken while setting up for threading so that over run of the threading tool is avoided as it may cause major accidents and damage to the tools and the machine.

 

Carbide tipped tools are used widely in
1] Mining of Coal, Iron Ore and other ores in the form of Augurs, Cutter Picks, Coal Picks etc.
2] Weld bead removal of Electrical Resistance Welded steel tubes.
3] Aircraft component machining.
4] Cutting off knives in machines that mass produce fasteners, needle roller and other types of bearings.
5] Heavy duty planning machines and roll turning lathes for steel mills and heavy engineering industries.
6] Fine boring machines where the corner radii of the tools are very small.
7] Single spindle and multi spindle automatic lathes that mass produce components with profiled grooves and forms.
8] Chisels that are used in making rough, medium and smooth files.
9] Revolving Centers and Dead Centers.
10] Wood working tools and cutters.
11] Machining of steel, cast iron, aluminium and non ferrous components for all types of industries.

 

In today's world you should be in a position to have a drink and listen to your customers, their thoughts and opinions. You have to build a relationship with your customers the same way as you have built a relationship with all your closest buddies over the past 40+ years.

Here are five reasons why your customers are like your closest buddies:

(1) You cannot put up an image, you need to be yourself: Your closest friends know you really well and you can't take them for a ride. Similarly, your distributors are no different. You have to be very genuine and cannot put up and image.
(2) Do not brag about yourself: You know the consequences you would face if you brag about your self to your old friends. They will no longer hang out with you. Similarly, you don't have to brag about your products, your distributors and customers know how good or not good you are. Your focus is to try and solve you're their problems
(3) Your friends choose you: You were not born with your friends but you could choose them and they could choose you based on the compatibility level and wavelength. Similarly, you distributors can choose you based on the quality of service and products you provide.
(4) Your friends are straight and upfront: None of your oldest buddies are going to hide any information about you. If something is to be said they would say it out loud and clear. Similarly, your distributors and customers are very straight and upfront and will say what they have to.
(5) Long Relationship: If you survived 30+ years with your friends this means that both your friends and yourself were compatible with each other. Similarly, if you consider you distributor or a customer your friend and build a long term relationship, this relationship would be based on confidence and trust.

I have been in the manufacturing industry for the last 35 years and we started Tectools 25 years ago. A new client of mine in the United States sent me an email suggesting that the tools I just shipped to him looked very familiar to the tools he was purchasing for the past 20+ years. I really don't know if this was a coincidence or he may have got it from various distributors that I supplied to.

Back in 1980's and 1990's for every company to grow, the location was the prime factor. Every city's infrastructure was the primary driver for small businesses to grow. The better the infrastructure of every city, the more the people the city would attract, small business could thrive.

Today location is still a prime factor for a business to thrive but not the only factor. Companies like amazon.com took the advantage of the world wide web and successfully sell most products at the best rates. Our goal is to take our company virtually to the client (by Video's, Blogs and our Website) so that the client can have an understanding of who we are and what Tectools do. We are still at the incipient stages and are hopeful that we can accomplish this task successfully in the future.

It is disappointing see a lot of manufacturing companies who manufacture rigid tools, carbide tools, lathe tools, woodturning tools, carbide drill bits and trepan tools who try and take the easy path and make cold calls to a client and wait for weeks to get some kind of a response. What they don't realize is there is opportunity out there to get found using the web effectively.
If you are a large manufacturing company and a manufacturer of cutting tools & threading tools, lathe tools, carbide insert & carbide burrs the best way to attract clients is to engage the clients with technical blogs.
At Tectools we have been focusing on technical blogs for a while and our results have been very positive. Once a potential customer is interested in us we provide free samples to them for their approval and evaluation. It is very important for clients to view the quality of tools we provide. Throughout this interaction with the client we actually make the potential client feel valued. There are cases where I have had people contact me about how to manufacture some tools, I have offered my advice on ways to manufacture tools effectively. It's not just all about getting orders, but more about building a relationship with clients.

1. Where does the sourcing company (manufacturer) source the raw materials?

Every distributor needs to focus more on the quality of tools. It is the raw material which drives this quality of tools. Tectools does not compromise on raw materials and sources its raw materials from Europe and Kennametal India.

2. Can the sourcing company (manufacturer) offer a quick turnaround time for the manufacturing of tools?

It is very important that the sourcing company has the bandwidth to manufacturer tools and provide a quick turnaround time. Tectools has a production capacity of around 40,000 tools/ month and provides a quick turnaround time.

3. Can the sourcing company (manufacturer) offer International Quality of tools at very competitive prices?

To compete in this global environment every manufacturer must provide best quality tools at the best prices. Tectools strives to provide the best quality of tools at the best prices.

4. How long have the founders of the sourcing company (manufacturer) been in the cutting tool industry?

It is very important that clients deal with people who have a very clear understanding of the requirement. The founders of Tecools have been in this cutting tool industry for more than 35 years. They have a very clear understanding of the client's requirements as Tectools have been supplying to various clients for the past 25 years.

5. How old is the sourcing company (manufacturer)?

The older the company the better it is (Think like Google, they provide more value to order websites/domain names than newer ones.) Tectools has been in the cutting tool industry for the past 25 years and are Kennametal's preferred supplier for South East Asia and India for 25 years.