Platinum Tooling’s tool speed increaser


Platinum Tooling’s Heimatec speed increaser recently provided Kurt Machining, a provider of CNC machined parts, with a 9x cost savings on an engraved 6060 aluminum component.

The Heimatec speed increaser increased RPM and decreased part cycle time on Kurt’s machine, a Hwacheon horizontal turning center. Detailing the application, Abrasive Specialists, Inc. (ASI) and their tooling partner, Platinum Tooling, demonstrated that a 1:3 speeder increased spindle RPM enough that when coupled with about a 3x increase in feed rate on a horizontal turning center would produce a significant improvement to the current machining cycle. Calculating the reduction in machining cost per part and factoring the cost of the speed increaser, it was determined the use of the Heimatec product onboard the Hwacheon turning center would result in a 9x cost saving for the customer, in the first year’s production run on this engraved aluminum component.