From what I've seen in our shop, rushing run times without proper feed adjustments is killing tool life.

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But what if the tool cost is way lower than machine downtime? Sometimes you gotta push a cheap endmill hard to hit a cycle time and just eat the replacement. Seen guys run a $40 tool at 150% to save an hour on the floor, makes sense on paper.

ruby_grant1mo ago

Watch the math fall apart when that cheap endmill snaps off in the part and you spend three hours on a rework. Sure, burn up a forty dollar tool, but don't act surprised when the scrap part costs ten times that. This is how you turn a simple tool change into a whole weekend of unpaid overtime for everyone.

sean_foster5219d ago

That "makes sense on paper" math is the only math the bosses upstairs ever look at anyway.