04-20-2015, 05:05 PM
If the Iscar stuff is cheaper there then just buy it and be done. It's no skin off my nose.
Perishable tooling cost represents, on industry average, about 3% of the cost of making a part. Material, buildings, coolant, compressed air, labor, worker benefits, insurance, losses, taxes, machinery, inventory, waste disposal, heat, air conditioning, accounting, logisitics, and so much more add up to the remaining 97%. If your perishable tooling (inserts, drills, taps, reamers, abrasives and the like) rises by 100% to 6% of the cost of making a part but does so by raising productivity by 15% it's a wash. If you get 20 or 30% bump in productivity with higher material removal rates, the cost of better tooling is easily justified. The only way to know which is better for YOU is to test both with the support of each manufacturer or their representing distributor and quantify the results.
Best of luck to you.
Ken
Perishable tooling cost represents, on industry average, about 3% of the cost of making a part. Material, buildings, coolant, compressed air, labor, worker benefits, insurance, losses, taxes, machinery, inventory, waste disposal, heat, air conditioning, accounting, logisitics, and so much more add up to the remaining 97%. If your perishable tooling (inserts, drills, taps, reamers, abrasives and the like) rises by 100% to 6% of the cost of making a part but does so by raising productivity by 15% it's a wash. If you get 20 or 30% bump in productivity with higher material removal rates, the cost of better tooling is easily justified. The only way to know which is better for YOU is to test both with the support of each manufacturer or their representing distributor and quantify the results.
Best of luck to you.
Ken