The good kind of ‘when it rains, it pours.’ Reliability and cycle time are key if you’re running lights-out. Our customer’s machinists set up their machines during the day to run unmanned and unwatched the remainder of the shift. They were machining electrical harness mounts from copper 110, and their tooling seemed to be performing well enough. However, when they saw an opportunity to potentially increase their penetration rates, they decided to investigate. The customer tested the 4TEX Indexable Carbide Drill using the “N” geometry-designed specifically for non-ferrous materials -with a TiCN coating giving them high lubricity. Originally, the customer was hoping for a 15% increase in penetration rate. The 4TEX blew past that expectation and increased the penetration rate by 158%. A

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