Cutting Idle Time by 20 %

It’s the same old story every day and the pressure is constantly increasing: the first tool must be in quality and rework must be avoided. Scrap must be minimized at all costs, because it is one of the major cost drivers. This applies to both the production of new tools and to regrinding. To achieve this, it is essential to have a perfect grinding program – as well as valid information about grinding wheels and wheel packs.

More Efficiency in High-Precision Manufacturing

This is a detailed analysis of the introduction of ZOLLER’s tool presetter »smile« at Five Straight, a company located in Kanzakigun, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The company’s goal is to efficiently produce and supply high-precision parts in the manufacturing industry. In order to perform high-mix, medium-volume production (multiple industries, multiple materials) with a small number of workers, the company always makes the utmost effort to…

More Efficiency by Reducing Tool Setup Times

Ituwa Kogyo, based in Hiroshima City, Japan, introduced ZOLLER’s »venturion« high-precision tool presetter in July 2023, and has achieved a significant reduction in work hours and streamlined tool setup time for high-mix low-volume production. This innovation has made a significant contribution to the optimization of the manufacturing process and has led to increased customer satisfaction.

More Efficiency in Tool Production

One of our customers, who is based in the Kansai area of Japan, was experiencing significant time losses during the setup process for precision tool manufacturing, particularly for small diameter tools with D 0.6 mm or less. For the customer, the primary issue was frequent “air cuts” in the grinding wheel.

Remarkable Time Savings mean More Efficiency

Korin Iron Works, based in the Hokuriku region, specializes in manufacturing high-value parts on state-of-the-art machining centers, including turbine blades for the aerospace industry and power generation equipment. In response to intensifying market competition and increasing quality demands from customers, Korin considered a fundamental reform of their production processes. Specifically, there was an urgent need to improve various stages of the…

ZOLLER presetting, tool management and tool storage solutions play a vital role at Eagle Manufacturing, a thriving student-run manufacturing business out of Brown County High School in Nashville, Indiana.

By implementing smart tool management solutions by ZOLLER, which provides interfaces to a variety of software providers and machines, SIM Automation GmbH in Heilbad Heiligenstadt has enjoyed six figure savings and established data consistency across its entire production process.

Diamond tools are a specialty of the ROT company — Reiner Oehlmann Tools from the Lower Saxon town of Celle, Germany — especially for industrial grinding tasks. In addition to extremely high precision with tolerances of just a few micrometers, completing batches of just a single tool is a major challenge — especially in light of the market’s demand for a good price/performance ratio.