IMTS 2024 Conference: Cutting Edge Innovations: Maximizing Productivity and Best Practices with Superabrasives

Wednesday September 11 3:15 PM CST
IMTS50 Room W193-B

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As the world emerges from the pandemic's disruptions, the demand for high-performing tools with enhanced value propositions has become more pressing than ever. In this session, where innovation meets necessity in the evolving landscape of cutting tool technologies, we delve into the current dynamics of the Global Cutting Tools market, exploring its steady growth in 2024 and forecasting a substantial rise for the next five years. Amid this surge, key players are strategically shaping the market's trajectory, offering new opportunities and challenges.

Our session aims to unravel operational challenges in the cutting tool industry and their consequential impact on the bottom line. Discover best-practice approaches for achieving operational excellence, from enhancing productivity and efficiency to ensuring superior process control and improved part quality. Explore tools designed for easy operation, requiring less operator skill, and promising rapid payback on investments.

Additionally, we will explore the intricacies of grinding product tiers, unveiling key technology differences that significantly lower the cost per part in the grinding of cutting tools. Engage with relevant case studies from end-users in the cutting tool manufacturing sector, gaining insights into successful strategies and outcomes.

We will also discuss next-generation products for round tool grinding and insert grinding, actively pursued, and tested in today's dynamic cutting tool market.

Meet your presenter
Alfredo Barragan has a B.Sc. In Mechanical Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico and an MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Since 2016, he has held the position of senior application engineer - cutting tool market focus with Saint-Gobain Abrasives. Prior to that, he held several other positions with the company, including product engineer - superabrasives (resin, metal, & paradigm); project engineer - superabrasives; and manufacturing engineer - superabrasives.