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Our latest project is manufacturing Inconel 718 prototype components for the semi-conductor industry. Big thank you to the ISCAR projects team and everyone involved with the development of these parts.
Using the latest in ceramic cutting tool technology we have managed to half the time it takes to produce these parts (compared with the next best alternative). Inconel 718 (or Alloy 718) is a high-strength superalloy with a nickel-chrome base and is notoriously difficult to machine consistently and without experiencing strain hardening.
This particular
application involved Turning, Drilling, Milling and Thread Milling of small
deep non standard pitch threads and very tight machining limits of better than
5 microns (0.005mm) both dimensionally and geometrically.
By combining both our engineering know how and Iscar’s technical expertise this project was successfully concluded with a presentation to our client before handing over the resulting trial parts.
One such partnership we have is with ISCAR tools ltd. ISCAR is part of the IMC Group and one of the worlds leading suppliers of cutting tools.
Since 2018 a technical partnership has existed enabling us to work together developing machining and tooling strategies to reduce manufactures times whilst improving quality.
Read a recent article published in MTD CNC magazine:
http://read.mtdpublishing.com/march-2020/?page=22
Pope and Meads are pleased to announce we have recently invested in 2 new seats of Open Mind’s HyperMILL CAD/CAM software capable of Programming both simple and complex shapes from an easy to learn and use GUI. The software comes out of the box with the ability to post programs out to all our machines from 2 axis lathes upto full 5 axis milling and has many features which make programming more efficient and safer such as advanced HSC & HPC cycles (High-Speed Cutting & High-Performance Cutting), 5 axis drilling and powerful real time simulation of programming cycles with built in collision avoidance. We look forward to working with Open Mind to further improve our capabilities here at Pope & Meads.
To extend our turning capacity we have recently invested in a new Star SR32J Sliding Head Lathe from StarGB, this new machine compliments an already in-situ Star SA12 which we have had for a number of years and which has proven to be a versatile and reliable machine tool. This added investment will allow us to produce parts for existing and new customers more efficiently and also add to our lights-out machining capability. We look forward to running our first components through this machine and building on our partnership with StarGB – Many thanks to Steve Totty and his team at StarGB for there help with this project.