A typical HELIMILL insert: a helical cutting edge is formed by the intersection between the helical side and the shaped top surfaces of the insert.

It is apparent that five axis machining is becoming increasingly popular in modern metal cutting. Five-axis machining provides significant advantages such as machining complex-shaped parts by use of one set-up without changing the location of the workpiece, high machining accuracy, and reduced cycle time.

Back in the seventies, ISCAR introduced SELF-GRIP, the brand name of the original blockbuster parting tool design concept. According to the design concept of the SELF-GRIP tool, a pressed carbide insert was clamped into a tool blade using the blade's elastic forces without the need for mechanical securing elements. At that time, other manufacturers also attempted to clamp inserts into a parting tool using the same principle.

In the metalworking industry, ensuring a high-grade surface finish has always been one of the main directions in cutting tool development. This is also true for indexable face milling cutters. Despite significant improvement in the high surface quality of milled surfaces, tool designers still believe that available resources have not yet exhausted and that intelligent applications of the last generations of advanced milling cutters can substantially improve surface texture.

How can we define the manufacturer's expectations from cutting tool producers? Cutting tool producers are expected to provide optimal cutting tool solutions for a given application. So, how is an optimal cutting tool defined for a specific application? It is obvious that standards must be set to achieve a formidable solution.

In milling applications, 90° cutters are perhaps the most common tools. These versatile tools are used for milling square shoulders, slots, face operations bound by shoulders, edges, pockets, and cavities. Face mills perform machining by ramping and turn-milling. These 90°cutters prevail in the product range of tool manufacturers that produce general-purpose mills whether indexable, solid, or brazed.

The three-pronged principle of the MULTI-MASTER family was based on the face contact between a carbide head and tool, centering the head by use of a short taper, and securing the head in the tool body by use of a threaded connection.

Superalloys - metal alloys, which reflect their complex alloyed structure, have become one of the main engineering materials for a long time. They feature extremely high elevated temperature strength, and therefore often are referred to as high-temperature superalloys (HTSA) or heat-resistant superalloys (HRSA).

“Live" tool (also known as a driven tool) is the term used for tools that clamp on a lathe turret or a tool post with rotation capabilities. In a traditional lathe, a workpiece rotates, but the tool does not.

Several decades ago, the introduction of machine tools with significantly increased rotary and linear velocities was the success to efficient high-speed machining (HSM) methods.