CNC West Feb March 2019

46 www.CNC-West.com CNC WEST February/March 2019 SKM made the switch to all YG1 high speed end mills. They were using 7 flute end mills for high speed machining of steel until Jonathan from High Speed Corp brought in a 6 flute. He said try it at the same feeds and speeds and let him know what you think. They got 25% better tool life out of it without changing anything else. “YG1 is a completely new tooling line for us,” tells Jon- athan Saada of High Speed Corp. “Sanjeev is one of the few people who are always eager to try new things. He has a different way of looking at tooling than most of my customers. He doesn’t just look at the price of the tool; he looks at the throughput from the tool.” Sanjeev explains that people often confuse the price of the tool with the price of the tool per part. He can look at his self made Job Shop Manager MRP system’s hard cost matrix and see exactly what the cost was to make any given part factor- ing in labor, tooling, outside processing, materials, and so forth. “YG1 are one of the biggest end mill manufacturers in the world,” continues Jonathan. “Getting tools out in the real world was important and I knew SKM was a per- fect fit. I know that SKM produces only the highest qual- ity parts and I knew that Sanjeev would give me honest, and informed feedback on each YG1 product he tested. His data collection processes are fantastic, so we would know right away how effective the YG1 tooling compared against his current and past tooling choices. I brought him YG1 Dream Dills, YG1 4, and 6 flute end mills, and YG1 turning inserts. He was able to beat the competition in every category.” Sanjeev developed and coded the JOB Shop Manager MRP system himself, which is designed to manage and integrate data for every work order and also deploy it on iPads at every work station so that any revision changes, prints, travelers, run times etc. are live everywhere at all times. With over three decades of experience, Sanjeev is not one to just believe the hype that comes from a tooling salesman. But he is a person always looking for any gain in performance. For him the first real test came on a part All of SKM’s high speed 4 axis milling is done on Haas Super Speed CNC machining centers. The machines run at 600” a minute thanks in part to GibbsCam and High Speed Corp tooling.