Many current topics such as Industry 4.0, Internet of Things (IoT) or Big Data require one thing: error-free data communication!
This applies in particular to data for single and assembled tools, i.e. for drills, milling cutters, reamers and for threading tools in the standard and special range, regardless of design or cutting material. This also applies to digital data of necessary components such as extensions and tool holders.
An essential basis for a functioning data transfer is always the underlying interface. According to current surveys on industry 4.0 projects in German companies, the interfaces have the highest priority. It is required that all data that are to be transferred from A to B or converted into another data format are available as completely as possible in a standardized format. In addition to the interface, data quality is also a factor that should not be underestimated. Extracting a few from a lot of data is always easier than guessing the missing information from a few data. This often does not succeed or only inadequately; despite increasingly intelligent software solutions.
For this reason, it is also crucial for cutting tools to have 100% of the data content available so that the information required for data transfer can be derived at any time.
Manufacturers and users of cutting tools and components have data-generating software solutions at their disposal with the Tool Designer Suite from ISBE GmbH.
Along the company-wide process chain, from sales and project planning through quotation preparation and design to production, all components of the Tool-Designer Suite continuously upgrade the digital tool data. The TD Sketcher assists in the elaboration of required tool geometries and dimensions and provides an enormous boost to a process-parallel check of the tool for collision. The modules TD Sketcher PROCESS and TD Sketcher TIME manage the optimal cutting and application values as well as the calculation criteria for the quotation. The Tool Designer Suite supports further tool modeling, design and work preparation in the following process steps. The available data format requires neither complex conversions nor external interfaces for internal use and increases performance through coordinated automatisms.
Consistent digital tool data, generated by data-generating software solutions from ISBE GmbH, provide solutions for the new requirements of rapidly advancing digitalization.