How To Choose Carbide Inserts For Your Project

1. How To Choose Carbide Inserts For Your Project? We all know carbide inserts are the hardest-working cutting tools in manufacturing. They increase efficiency, reduce costs, and allow you to create better products than ever before. But how do you find that perfect carbide insert for your application? Carbide inserts are available in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and coatings. This can make finding the right one challenging. How do you select the right product when there is so much to choose from? The selection of the most advantageous tooling material for moulds and dies has become as sophisticated a factor as the design of the tooling itself. The use of new materials, new harder coatings for materials, pre-hardened materials, and combinations of materials in moulds and dies continues to complicate the manufacturing engineer's ability to select the optimum cutting tool as it relates to material machinability, hardness, and desired surface finish. Couple this with newer high-speed machines and new oil mist and dry machining techniques as well as better surface finish requirements, and you have created a real cutting tool insert selection "dilemma" for the mould maker. In most cases, there is never going to be one cutting tool solution that works for everyone. There are too many variables with different machines, different coolants, speeds and feeds, and different machining environments. This article has attempted to show in brief the basics of selecting inserts for the various material types. The ultimate selection is left to you, hopefully now with better knowledge.