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Article: Cutting tool slashes cycle times by 75 Percent: this moldmaker reduces cycle times from 10 hours to two hours with a more durable, faster cutter that also leaves a nice finish.(Case Study: Cutting Tools)
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- MoldMaking Technology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Specializing in milling and EDM'ing large, complex 3-D geometry for various tool steels for both molds and foundry patterns, Lawrenceburg, IN-based Ohio Valley Precision, Inc. (OVP) was looking to reduce its cycle times, according to President Scott Allen. The addition of Sumitomo Electric Carbide, Inc.'s (Mount Prospect, IL) Metal Slash Mill allowed him to reduce a 10-hour cycle time to two hours.
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Allen established this 11-employee shop in 2006, and now that times are especially challenging in the industry, he wanted to improve customer delivery times even more. "Back then, when the economy was good, we had plenty of time to get a ...