New Info | 16.03.2009

New Technical Manual - KomGuide

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New Info | 04.03.2009

Welcome to the IDEEN-FABRIK+

With the IDEEN-FABRIK+ and the comprehensive seminar programme for customers and employee qualification, we aim to offer you a measurable and permanent competitive advantage in your markets.

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KOMET GROUP opens IDEEN-FABRIK + | 19.09.2008

Be creative with Rudolf Diesel, Leonardo da Vinci and Marie Curie

Innovative tool concepts and holistic solutions for the bore machining industry distinguish the KOMET GROUP as a worldwide leader in technology, with its leading market position. The company, based in Besigheim in Germany, is celebrating its 90th anniversary with another milestone in the story of its continued success. The IDEEN-FABRIK + (pronounced “ee-DANE fa-BRICK PLUS”) revives, reinterprets and sets trends as it carries forward the company values of founder Robert Breuning.

Taking just 13 months to construct – from the demolition of the old administrative building to the inauguration on 18-19 July – the new IDEEN-FABRIK + represents a substantial investment, seven million euro, in the future of the company and the Besigheim plant. Behind this is the knowledge that in Germany, a high-wage country, the future cannot be assured through investment in machines and buildings alone. Rather, being a high-performance and highly-qualified location is essential. The transformation of the company from tool manufacturer into a group of creative experts who provide solutions for boring, precision grinding and the production of threads, as well as with mechatronic tools is reflected architecturally in the newly opened IDEEN-FABRIK +: the KOMET GROUP stands for added value in terms of user support and services for its customers and partners. In Besigheim this integrated philosophy is known as “TOOLS PLUS IDEAS” and underlines with this unique selling proposition who we are and what we stand for.

In order to offer their customers a measurable and lasting competitive advantage in their markets, the KOMET GROUP itself must produce first class performance in terms of technology, process capability, employee training and customer orientation. And this is precisely what is reflected in the concept and design of IDEEN-FABRIK +.

Factory of ideas and IDEEN-FABRIK +

A modern, multilevel factory environment was created, with an area totalling 2,500 m2. It was our express intention to build the IDEEN-FABRIK + not as a separate training building, but to integrate it directly above the production floor. So while metal cuttings fly about below, up above ideas are being born. This spatial proximity encourages mental activity and creativity that is not detached and aimless, but is particularly practical and realistic. Moreover, the boundaries between “manufacturing” and “creativity” even blend together visually, because a specially designed industrial ambience that exudes a unique sense of well-being was chosen for the interior furnishings of the IDEEN-FABRIK +.

It goes without saying that all the latest communication media have been thought of, such as internet access and mobile phone chargers. At the front and back ends, diagonally opposite each other in the vast, L-shaped, 650 m2 foyer, there is a bar and a branded workbench – the latter for a realistic experience and further development of the whole KOMET GROUP concept – by employees and customers. From here a robot also holds out its arm for different tasks to the problem solvers working away. The L is designed to be multifunctional and flexible so that changing focuses and encounters become possible. For the inauguration, for instance, displays with themed areas such as history, precision, speed, flexibility and stability have been designed and created to be touched; because comprehension has to do with touching. Many parts of the first-class presentation system were manufactured in our own training workshop.

Leonardo da Vinci as a stimulus
“Mens sana in corpore sano (a sound mind in a sound body)”. The Romans knew this. The KOMET GROUP takes the association of this concept further by customising the space differently, dedicating the training rooms to great minds: these include the above-mentioned Leonardo da Vinci, Rudolf Diesel and Marie Curie. The intention is to encourage employees and customers come up with ideas. Covering many hundred square metres, there is therefore ample room for creativity, learning and working.

Much more importantly, however, is that the attributes of creativity, an exemplary nature, desirability, ambition and support which are found collectively find their creative, actual equivalent here: creativity on an international level in terms of processes and products, an exemplary nature through clear and efficient ideas as benchmarks for the future, desirability through modern drive and aesthetics, ambition in the search for the best solution for the team and support through added value which go far beyond the product benefit.

Ultimately, ideas management at the KOMET GROUP should benefit from the creative environment: Two thousand ideas for continuous improvement of processes are expected in the first year alone – and to support these in practice, an implementation time of or just four weeks has been set, from submission to reality. These are absolute, measurable, crystal clear objectives, which enable process control and management even for these immaterial values.

Training is adapting to a changing world
John F. Kennedy said: “Nothing is more expensive than education – except ignorance.” In order to speed ahead and counteract this ignorance, the IDEEN-FABRIK + provides the KOMET GROUP with a comprehensive training programme for customers and for employee qualifications. All employees know the promise that these training measures will provide. Part of this training programme takes place outside paid working hours, which contributes to an even stronger identification as a partner of the company they work for.

Under its new management, the KOMET GROUP with IDEEN-FABRIK + has now breathed new life into what was first begun by Robert Breuning with innovative inventions and his recognition and laying down of the company values: to produce a basis for the man and employee success factor, which enables us look to the future with confidence.

With its brands KOMET, KOMET DIHART and KOMET JEL, the KOMET GROUP is a leading global manufacturer of precision tools for bore machining, threading and reaming. The group has led the way in innovation in the sector for over 90 years - a tradition that began with the early insert drills and that continues today with their mechatronic tool systems. The company currently employs more than 1,600 staff in its 20 subsidiaries and is represented in around 50 countries.

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Meeting up, communicating, being creative, working away meticulously on innovations, learning and working – the unique IDEEN-FABRIK + was created for all these things for the KOMET GROUP.

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KomTronic^® U-axis systems in use at ROMAI^® for high-end machining | 19.09.2008

ROMAI® handles high precision internal machining, typical tasks performed by jig boring machines, using a KomTronic®  U-axis system in the machining centre.

The ROMAI Robert Maier GmbH in Vaihingen/Enz-Horrheim is known right across the sector for its versatile articulated multispindle heads. ROMAI®  develops, designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of products from powered tools to angular boring heads and high-speed-spindles to stationary and replaceable multispindle heads that simplify manufacturing processes and go beyond standard applications to provide the user with custom performance and streamlining.At the same time, the concentricity of the inside diameter, from the seat of the coolant cartridge to the bearing seat and beyond, is of vital importance to quality, as is the position of the bore holes to each other in particular with reference to multispindle solutions. In sophisticated products, it is usual today to have parts with precision requirements of around +/- 5 µm. A KomTronic® U-axis system enables complete machining which includes turning operations, on components that are often not rotationally symmetric, in one machining centre for high-end machining.

Using the U-axis system from KOMET®                     complex contours can be freely programmed and produced in one contour operation. In comparison to conventional boring, this saves tools and tool replacement times and when you consider the complexity of most products that are manufactured as individual pieces or limited series, this represents an enormous improvement in terms of efficiency. Finally, this also reduces the processing times significantly which is just as pleasing to ROMAI® as the increased precision that comes when tools no longer need to be changed in this sector and the associated imprecision caused by changing tools.

The U-axis system from KOMET®  enables standard turning steels to be used as adaptor tools that are directly fitted with modular tool adaptors onto the teeth on the slide.Different adaptors from the KomTronic® modular system make it possible to use tools with different standard connections. In regard to achieving ever higher precision requirements, the U-axis system is an investment in the future for ROMAI® .

The replaceable NC-axis

KomTronic® U-axis systems essentially consist of one compact facing head with single slide that is driven by a servo motor and threaded spindle. The power supplied to the electronics and the drive is transmitted contact-free and inductively to the U-axis system. Similarly, the data is exchanged inductively with the U-axis system. A so-called stator is mounted on the spindle side. It is segment-shaped, which permits the tools to be replaced automatically. The ring-shaped inductive transmission unit on the U-axis side ensures proper data and energy exchange in every angular position.Thanks to the freely programmable and cutting edge that is dynamically adjustable during machining, the mechatronical U-axis systems are automatically replaceable NC-axes. Programming is carried out in the usual NC programming language and is integrated in the machine control. You have all of the functionality of a normal ISO programme available to you.

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New Info | 08.09.2008

AMB 2008 Exhibition Journal

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New Info | 08.09.2008

KOMET KUB Pentron™ Solid drilling to 5 × D

Insert drilling of the highest calibre

World First - KUB Pentron^® Races Ahead

KOMET® moves up a gear in the area of insert drilling with the KUB Pentron^® . The new tool system offers continuous drilling up to 5 x D, also with performance data of the highest calibre.



KOMET has broken completely new ground to develop the new KUB Pentron®. It unites key features in one tool, such as attainable preci-sion, the highest performance parameters and impressive drilling depths. It permits up to 20 % higher cut and feed rate values than insert drills currently on the market, and the KUB Pentron® provides high performance as seen in its length-to-diameter ratios of 5 x D. It masters extreme machining conditions that were previously only pos-sible in 3 x D. The KUB Pentron® is equipped with two square inserts that each have four effective cutting edges. The internal and external inserts have exactly the same shape. From allround geometry to soft cutting and what is known as chip breaker geometry, inserts with high per-formance substrates and coatings are available for the widest variety of materials. Just as the inserts and their respective geometries are patented, so is the basic body. There are three basic holder variants for 3 x D, 4 x D and 5 x D with parallel shank and ABS connection. A special surface treatment ensures optimum chip clearance and sliding properties. In the 14 to 44 millimetre diameter range, the new KUB Pentron® lets you go up a gearso that insert drilling is possible across the entire range of length-to-diameter ratios right up to 5 x D using one universal tool system.

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New Info | 08.09.2008

KOMET KUB K2^TM Replaceable head drill for tiny diameters

KOMET penetrates into new dimensions

KUB K2® - The Peak of Small Diameters

Two-edged drill with new replaceable head system expands the “playing ability” of the KOMET GROUP. The innovative replaceable head system of the two-edged KUB K2® is a clever, replaceable drill head concept created by KOMET® . They have now applied the advantages of efficiency and versatility of re-placeable cutting heads to small drilling diameters down to eight millimetres. The double-cutting carbide drill heads have a patented self-fixing and self-centring attachment point making them very easy to change. The new KUB K2® is based on a similarly patented basic holder with parallel shank that is available in versions for length-to-diameter ratios of 3, 5 and 7 x D. The new replaceable head drill was designed to cover the diameter range of 8 to 18.99 mm in steps of 0.01 millimetre. The internal coolant supply guarantees ideal coolant outlet at the cut-ting edge. Replaceable drill heads with the widest variety of surfaces and coatings for steel, cast, aluminium and stainless steel materials can be used in the basic holders, thereby making the new KUB K2® not only versatile and efficient, but a strong “replacement player” as well.

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New Info | 08.09.2008

KOMET JEL MGF XH MICRO M1-M2,5 - Thread Milling into hardened steels between 45-60HRC

Thread milling in hardened steels from M1

MGF thread milling tools from KOMET JEL are capable of making core counterbores and the thread in one process. This is done by plunging into the existing core hole, making the 90° core counterbore with countersink on the shank side and subsequent thread milling in one process to the programmed thread depth. The external tool di-ameter is smaller than the core bore diameter. For hardened steels, the Vaihinger-based threading professionals have developed the XH variant. These are coated tools with special chip and slot geometries. With the new MGF XH Micro, the KOMET GROUP has expanded its successful tool range into the low dimension range of M1-M2.5. These left-hand cutting tools are designed with one profile, with two or three flutes and fitted with a 90° countersink that is standard in this series. The attainable thread length is at a length-to-diameter ratio of 1.5 x D. The tools make machining directly into hardened metal possible, even with the smallest of diameters. As is the case with all other standard (drilling) thread milling cutters from the KOMET GROUP, CNC programmes can be generated online under http://tpt.kometgroup.com: Available worldwide around the clock from every PC with internet access.

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