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PMTS 2003
  • Quick Change Tooling Solutions From Start to Finish
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Overview of Quick Change
  • What Does Quick Change Really Mean
  • What Makes Up a Quick Change      Set-Up
  • Cost Benefit



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What Does Quick Change Really Mean
  • Planning ahead
  • Beginning with the end in mind
  • Pre-set Tooling
  • Datum Line/ Insert Tooling




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Quick Change – Planning Ahead
  • Getting everyone on the same page


    • A. Management/Engineering – When quoting jobs, designing jobs or sending jobs to the floor
    • B. Vendors – when designing tooling
    • C. Tool room – when preparing jobs to go to the floor
    • D. Set-up People – Following principles behind quick change
    • E. Operators – Running jobs in line with quick change format
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Quick Change – Planning Ahead
  • Re-Designing – Set new standards
    • A. Reduce unnecessary differences in tooling
    • B. Reduce tooling vendor base so it easier to communicate your tooling needs



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Quick Change – Planning Ahead
  • Organizing – Have it ready
    • A. Have shop in an orderly fashion
    • B. All tooling needed to run job sent with job when it goes to the floor
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Quick Change – Planning Ahead
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Quick Change – Planning Ahead
  • Organizing – Have it ready
    • A. Have shop in an orderly fashion
    • B. All tooling needed to run job sent with job when it goes to the floor
    • C. Job Layouts that make sense and are current with quick change principles
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Quick Change – Planning Ahead
  • Organizing – Have it ready
    • A. Have shop in an orderly fashion
    • B. All tooling needed to run job sent with job when it goes to the floor
    • C. Job Layouts that make sense and are current with quick change principles
    • D. Only break down a set-up as a last resort
    • E. Machines organized for different set-up
      • (Keep an area open for the jobs that do not work with your system)
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Quick Change – Beginning with the end in mind
  • A. Know which machine a job is going on when quoting
  • B. Know which machine a job is going on when designing
  • C. Know what tooling will be on the machine when the last job finishes and what will be needed when the next job is going to start
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Quick Change – Beginning with the end in mind
  • D. If changes are required, identify ahead of time – show changes on layout sheet attached to the job
  • E. If changes were made – be sure that you return to the original setting when the job ends (That is your datum line)


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Quick Change – What makes up a quick change set-up
  • Pre-set end working tools
  • Quick change collets
  • Insert tooling
  • Datum line tooling
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Quick Change
Pre-set end work tool holders
  • A. Increase productivity per machine
  • B. Faster job set-ups and change over
  • C. Reduce tooling expenses  - fewer tools wasted and lost
  • D. Simplify tooling specifications
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Pre-set Tooling from Boyer -Schultz
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Pre-Set Tooling from
Boyer-Schultz
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Pre-Set Tooling from Tri-Lock
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Pre-set tooling in house custom
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Pre-set tooling in house custom
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Preset Tooling  - Dovetails
 New Market Products
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Pre-set tooling from
New Market Products
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Quick Change Collets
  • Reduce Material Changeover Time
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Quick Change from Hardinge
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Benefits of Quick Change Insert Tooling
  • Reduced Down Time
  • Greater Part Production
  • Advantages In Tool Coatings
  • Greater Variety Of Materials
  • Better Use Of Personnel
  • Ease Of Datum Point Set-up
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Tool Coatings
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Greater Variety Of Cutting Materials
  • Carbide comes in wide varieties
  • Use of different high speed steels
  • Diamond tipped
  • Cermet
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Insertable Tooling
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Styles of insert form tools
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End working insert tooling
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Cut off insert tooling
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Reduced Down Time and Greater Part Production Using Insert Tooling
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Datum Line Tooling
  • Best performance for your multi or single spindle screw machine
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Datum line insert tooling
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Quick Change Set-Up
Cost Reduction
  • Shop Rate: $60 per hour
  • 7 second cycle time


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Quick Change Set-Up
Cost Reduction
  • Typical Shop Rate: $60 per hour
  • 7 second cycle time


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Quick Change Set-Up
Cost Reduction
  • Typical Shop Rate: $60 per hour
  • 15 set-ups per month


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Better Use of Personnel
  • Set-up men can spend more time improving processes
  • Less skilled employees can keep a job running on  a machine without help
  • Tool room able to focus on projects making your company money


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Key Points Covered
  • Plan ahead
  • Know what is needed
  • Look at big picture on savings
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  • Copyright Reynolda Manufacturing Solutions 2003
  • No part may be reproduced or used without authors permission.