Kennametal Advanced Engineering combines years of cutting tool engineering expertise with best-in-class standard and special tooling to provide proven industry solutions.The depth and breath of our market leading standard products combined with innovative custom engineered tooling, can help you to gain a competitive advantage in an ever increasing and complex global manufacturing environment.

Implementing a new or converting an old transfer line to agile manufacturing machine technology, Kennametal Advanced Engineering can help by providing turn-key cutting tool solutions with proven industry results.

Kennametal Advanced Engineering has design and manufacturing resources around the globe. We can help you quickly and efficiently transplant manufacturing  operations anywhere in the world. Once up and running, Kennametal global sales, service, engineering, and distribution network can provide on-site technical and logistic support, regrind service, tool management, and automated procurement.

Automotive Solutions

• Lower cost per part
• Decreased cycle times
• Increased long-run productivity
• Fast changeover

The nature of automotive manufacturing demands specialized tooling designed for optimum productivity. Kennametal Advanced Engineering helps automotive manufacturers lower cost-per-part, shorten cycle times, increase tool life and facilitates fast changeovers. Involved from the advanced planning phase through full production, Kennametal Advanced Engineering considers factors including workpiece design and material, size of the component run, and surface finish and tolerances, in order to optimize production rate goals. Kennametal tooling systems provide flexibility and high process reliability. Often, standard and special tools are combined to achieve the most economical and productive result.

Aerospace Solutions

• Cost-effective top quality
• Assured process reliability
• Machining solutions for exotic materials

Aerospace manufacture is characterized by small-batch quantities of high-quality critical engine and airframe components. Kennametal offers the expertise of a global supplier with products that provide maximum productivity on difficult-to-machine materials common in aerospace components. Special tooling includes cutters and form inserts to optimize machining of exotic materials such as high-temperature alloys and titanium. A wide range of quick-change tooling solutions provides manufacturing flexibility and downtime reduction.

Heavy Equipment Solutions

• Rapid heavy metal removal
• Rigid toolholding/ workholding
• Standard and special tooling

Kennametal Advanced Engineering will design industry-specific workholding and toolholding solutions that provide simplicity and rigidity suited to the manufacture of large components. Heavy-duty tooling systems featuring single and multiple inserts match tool, grade and geometry to specific operations and workpiece materials, resulting in high process reliability at heavy metal removal rates.

General Machining Solutions

• Minimize downtime
• Maximize output
• Balance performance, flexibility

Success in general machining relies on a balance between machining performance and flexibility. Tooling and workholding systems from Kennametal Advanced Engineering enable general manufacturers to achieve high part throughput rates and provide the ability to change between parts and operations with minimal downtime.

For more information, please contact us at 1.866.646.7113.