‘Walter Select' simplifies the selection of tool

“‘Walter Select' is like a guide that employs a simple approach and standardised to help to the users to find the suitable tool” explains Benedikt Spiegelhalder, specialist of product of milling in Walter AG, resumiendo the innovative concept of the system of selection. “It is directed especially to the needs of the customers, but also is compatible with the presentation of a good council by the personnel of Walter”. ‘Walter Select' covers almost all the range of products offered by Walter like the turning, ranurado-tronzado, taladrado, threaded and milling”, explains Swindle Mager, responsible of global gestión of products of threaded in Walter AG.

The enormous variety of products that offers Walter requires a high level of knowledge of the users of the distinct products. Therefore, the company decided to develop an intelligent guide and of easy understanding called to offer to his customers a simpler form and effective to select the suitable tool in to ‘Walter Select' two the groups of products.

“One of the key concepts that extends by the four lines of product is to offer to our customers the same type of conditions mark that they find in the mechanised of his products”, explains Swindle Mager. “The aim is to divide the tasks of mechanised complex in groups of subjects that are easier to handle and understand”, adds Benedikt Spiegelhalder. Obviously, these groups can vary in function of the processes of mechanised involved. Between other things, include the material that the customer is mechanising and the conditions of existent work in the machine.

‘Walter Select' is integrated inside the catalogue of Walter, that contains more than 2,000 pages. In addition to the version impresa, this catalogue also is available for the download in format PDF in Internet and in application for i-Pad Walter and-Library'. The catalogue is structured in such a way that the user can find Walter Select' to beginning of each chapter. The individual steps describe with information detailed here, that guides to the users to the most adapted tool for his task of mechanised wished.

“This allows to the users select the optimum tool with the characteristics of cutting more adapted for his needs of mechanised”, emphasizes Benedikt Spiegelhalder.

Independently of the type of product that are looking for, it is necessary to select the material to mechanise in the first place. The corresponding material has to be annotated here. In the following steps, are specifically joined to the process of mechanised, has to do an analysis of the operations of mechanised and of the situation of the same. For example, the conditions of mechanised classify depending of the type of cutting that have to realise, as well as the stability of the machine and the system of subjection of the piece. For this, the experts of Walter have developed three faces with distinct expressesions and geometrical forms. These are allocated to provide immediately to the users the corresponding appropriate recommendation.

For operations of turning, the customers can use the specifically designed tables to reduce his selection of plaquitas interchangeable. In the following step, the rompevirutas of the plate is determined by the conditions of cut, advance and past, whereas the geometry of cut of the plate is determined by the stability of the edge of cutting and the profile to mechanise. Special diagrams of control of shaving are designed for this.

In the following step, the users have of an overview of the page of catalogue in which it can find the suitable basic form, the geometry of the interchangeable plate. In the pages of the catalogue specified in this overview, will find the recommendations of conditions of cut depending of the material to mechanise, such as the speed of cutting (Vc) and the advance (fz), perfectly structured beside the faces of ‘Walter Select'. The customers, finally choose the data of cutting of the turning for the previously selected plate.

‘Walter Select' is also available for the taladrado. The mark of product of Walter, Walter-Titex offers complete solutions for operations of taladrado. The greater diversity in system of plaquitas interchangeable, tips of broaches interchangeable, as of tools enterizas of hard metal and fast steel are available. Besides, tools that need a fast pre-adjust, with display digital, also are available for operations of taladrado and mandrinado of precision. Solutions with compensation of balance −automatic or manual− they improve the redondez. The highest precision and ease of handle increase so much the reliability and productivity of the processes. For applications of escariados, Walter offers tools multi-teeth of integral hard metal to the equal that in fast steel, also have of escariadores of interchangeable plates with skate.

When selecting the tools of taladrado or mandrinado in the first step, the material to mechanise also has to to be selected. The corresponding group of material has to be annotated. The second step is to determine the conditions of mechanised basing in the stability of the machine, the system of subjection and the piece determine us the type of symbol of the face. In the third step, the type of material of cutting (HSS, hard metal) and the type of refrigeration are selected. The following step is to determine the suitable tool in function of the depth of taladrado or mandrinado or low that norm DIN are built the tools. The fifth and last step, determines us the conditions of work of the application, speed of cutting (Vc) and advance by revolution (fz). “With ‘Walter Select' in mandrinados of precision, the radius of the plate has to be selected in base to the depth of work of the application. The superficial quality that can reach in the surface mandrinada by the radius of the plate and the advance of the same”, explains Swindle Mager.

When thread, the material also selects the first through the corresponding group. The specific application determines to continuation: threaded by cut, threaded by laminación or threaded with strawberry of roscar. The aim of the third step is the determination of the material of cut of the tool, the depth of threaded and the type of thread, blind or pasante. The corresponding page to the catalogue is specified in the following selection of tool. The page of the catalogue provides a reference to the table of data of cutting. In the final step, the parameters of cut of the tools are determinate. ‘Walter Select' does not offer us in this case a criterion of “faces” as in other applications. The main application and other applications are the only helps in the process of taking of decisions here.

When it is an application of milling, so much the selection by means of the “faces” and by primary and secondary application go in at stake. After the selection and to annotate the group of material to mechanise, the conditions of mechanised present beside the conditions of the machine, tie up and geometry of the piece. In the following step, the type of mechanised divides between the types of milling, escuadrado, planned, copied and diverse subgroups. The conditions of mechanised are selected, the speed of cutting and the advance based in the type of tool and the material to mechanise. When it is a milling with interchangeable plates is obvious the importance to take into account the rompevirutas and the degree of the coating of the plates.

“The aim in the development of ‘Walter Select' was to simplify as much as possible and use graphic elements, icons and pictograms of mechanised”, emphasizes Swindle Mager. “Our customers are clearly impressesed by the development of Walter Select'”. The personnel of sales of Walter also can confirm that Walter Select' is very efficient and his good received in our customers. In effect, ‘Walter Select' employs a fast process and very structured that ensures the help to any person to find the suitable tool using brief texts linked to explanatory tables. This is very very received by the users, any of which are motivated to do more suggestions or requests. “Regarding the applications of our customers, are prepared to expand even more our catalogue of selection in all the products”, explains Swindle Mager. “And the system of selection ‘Walter Select' already is wider that any one of the available in the market”. resume Benedikt Spiegelhalder.