Are you using your quick-change tooling as designed?
Are you using your quick-change tooling as designed? Departments - Mike’s tooling insights © Artinun | Adobe Stock During my travels around the globe, I’ve had the opportunity to visit many customers in a range of manufacturing facilities. My estimation is that more than 80% of customers who have quick-change tooling don’t use it as designed. Typically, when an insert reaches end of life, we see the operator indexing it on the machine. This means the machine is sitting idle during this ...