Our R&D activities in the field of tool and machining technology focus on maximum performance for users of demanding industrial production. Our developments focus on the fields of new cutting materials, adapted cutting geometries, and highly developed hard material coatings. They moreover include high tool life of precision tools for a successful partnership with our customers.
Schumacher has an internal standardized product database with more than 30,000 tool variants at its disposal for research purposes. For ‘Rapid Prototyping’, this technology basis can be used for the new design of tools – among other things by using CAD variant design and solid state simulation of the resulting 3-D models of the precision tools.
Externally, the company has a network of well-known institutions at its disposal for the research disciplines of high-speed steel as well as carbide substrates, heat and surface treatments, and hard material coatings.
“Rapid prototyping using 3D models and solid state simulation lead to a successful application of the tools.”