If they can figure out how to successfully make quality cutting tools, they can learn how to do coating.” Should You Take Coating In-House? “None of them had ever done coating before, yet they were up and running.” As he put it, CemeCon is “able to train anyone that has interest in the technology. He recounted a recent installation in which a customer sent staff members to CemeCon for two-week training sessions, followed by another two weeks in-house. The company’s latest operating software makes it relatively easy to control the multitude of factors that govern the HiPIMS process, Lake explained. At the time, tool manufacturers were just beginning to recognize the benefits of coatings produced by the method-but many still were leery about attempting it themselves.ĬemeCon, a coatings technology provider based in Horseheads, N.Y., now offers systems that can be operated by new users after just a few weeks of training-and these systems are even more capable than earlier models, according to Sales Manager Ryan Lake. But the process requires controlling more than 100 parameters. HiPIMS is an advanced form of physical vapor deposition (PVD) that achieves a nearly complete ionization of the coating metal. When we last covered cutting tool coatings in detail (ME August 2019: “Better Tool Life through Advanced Chemistry”), the hot new technology was high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS). Should you coat in-house? Factors to consider include costs, supply chain issues and the ability to make proprietary coatings Loading the Oerlikon Balzers PVD coating vessel at Better Edge.
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