Six development trends of the tool industry

The cutting tool industry has become the mainstream of manufacturing equipment in the CNC machine tool industry today, and shoulders the important task of providing key equipment for the manufacturing industry with CNC cutting tools. The processing technology level of the manufacturing industry is greatly affected by the overall level of the tool industry, and the development of the manufacturing industry will also promote the development of the tool industry. According to the needs of the development of the manufacturing industry, multi-functional composite tools, high-speed and high-efficiency tools will become the mainstream of tool development. Facing the increasing number of difficult-to-machine materials, the tool industry must improve tool materials, develop new tool materials and more reasonable tool structures.

1. The application of cemented carbide materials and coatings has increased. Fine-grained and ultra-fine-grained cemented carbide materials are the development direction; nano-coating, gradient structure coating and new structure and material coating will greatly improve the performance of tools; the application of physical coating (PVD) continues to increase.

2. Increase in the application of new tool materials. The toughness of tool materials such as ceramics, cermets, silicon nitride ceramics, PCBN, PCD, etc. have been further enhanced, and applications have been increasing.

3. The rapid development of cutting technology. High-speed cutting, hard cutting, and dry cutting continue to develop rapidly, and the scope of application is rapidly expanding.

4. Tool development is more targeted. The important point of the tool manufacturer's research and development is no longer the general brand and general structure. In the face of complex and changeable applications and processing conditions, we have developed more targeted insert geometries, grades and corresponding matching tools to replace general geometries and grades of inserts and tools.

5. The role of tool manufacturers has changed. From simple tool production and supply, to the development of new cutting processes and the development of corresponding complete sets of technologies and solutions, we provide users with comprehensive technical support and services.

6. The degree of informatization has increased, the cooperation between tool manufacturers has increased, and market competition has intensified.