Process innovations: From idea to recycling

Chicago, Illinois – This seminar will present ideas and technologies for managing cutting tools from cradle to grave, with an overall goal of demonstrating how companies can impact productivity and, ultimately, cost by creating a process to manage cutting tools “beyond the machine tool”.

Our decisions on how to utilize our manufacturing resources, i.e. manufacturing technologies, play a significant role in determining how well we’ve performed when a job is done. When you consider the major manufacturing technologies that you deal with (manage) on a daily basis (e.g., material, machine, CAD, CAM, fixtures, coolant & cutting tools), it’s most likely the cutting tool that poses the highest level of variance in your process. When you think of cutting tool variables, you most likely think of the parameters utilized “at the machine tool” (speed, feed, depth of cut and width of cut). A more detailed, cutting tool management, process should consider much more. Decisions to buy, program, store, utilize and discard cutting tools are constantly taking place and, therefore, can drastically affect overall productivity/cost.

About the speaker
Thomas Raun, national product manager - milling products, Iscar has 25 years of experience in manufacturing, spending the majority of his career specializing in CNC machining (programming, setup, and operation) within the Die & Mold Industry. He joined Iscar as a national product manager in 2003, and has since worked with manufacturing companies throughout the USA to improve machining processes through education and implementation of cutting tool technologies.  

Raun currently serves with Iscar’s Machine Tool OEM team, a group focused on supporting turnkey projects for Machine Tool OEM’s and Machine Tool Distributors.

Raun has achieved the highest qualification in Lean Six Sigma (master black belt), a methodology for improving the efficiency and effectiveness throughout an organization; he has also completed coursework through Villanova University in Lean & Six Sigma, Strategic Organizational Leadership and Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers.

Registration for the IMTS 2016 Conferences is now open.