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Faster & Much Faster


            The remarkable progress made in the area of          machine power, although the cutting tool
            rough milling in the 1990’s saw the introduction     should run fast. Therefore, light-duty machines
            of fast feed milling (FF),  also referred to as      featuring axis drives with sufficient velocity are
            high feed milling (HFM). These highly efficient      sufficient for FF milling.
            methodologies overturned established views and
            brought radical new ideas to the field.              Energy saving shallow-cut “fast” technology
                                                                 provides an excellent alternative to power
            Rather than use the traditional high metal removal   consuming deep-cut methods. Impressive high
            technique – milling with considerable depths         metal removal rates (MRR) at reduced power
            and widths of cut – users of the new approach        input is not the only advantage of the strategy-
            continued to machine with similar width of cuts,     FF milling delivers two additional benefits.
            although they used a much smaller depth of cut
            and applied much faster speeds with substantially    Shallow DOC enables contours to be produced
            increased feed per tooth.                            that are very close to the final required shape of
                                                                 a machined surface, reducing or even eliminating
            Milling with a large axial depth of cut (DOC)        semi-finish passes. In addition, the small
            requires the kind of cutting force provided          cutting edge angles of FF milling cutters allows
            by high-power machine tools, whereas FF              considerable increases in feeds and speeds per
            roughing with shallow DOC needs a lot less           tooth (fz) due to the effect of chip thinning.























































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