\n\u201cNOVO\u2122 thinks like a process planner,\u201d explains Thomas Long, head of the newly formed Virtual Machining RDE department at WIDIA. \u201cIt works from the feature back to the tooling strategy. In addition, each order number is tied to application data gleaned from hundreds of subject matter experts and decades of WIDIA experience. Request a part number and you also get pictures, assemblies, spare parts lists, as well as inserts that fit. Not only does it accomplish in minutes what formerly took hours, it yields an optimized solution, backed by WIDIA expertise, every time.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a>According to Long, NOVO\u2122 assists shop personnel in a number of intuitive ways, from \u201cI need to make a \u00bd\u201d hole x 1 \u00bd\u201d deep in ANSI 4140\u201d to \u201cI need a \u00bd\u201d by 5xD solid-carbide drill.\u201d In the first case, NOVO\u2122 helps users define machining features, drilling a blind hole in this case, and then immediately reduces the product set to those that can do the job, taking into account constraint requirements such as material, tolerance, and machining sequence for both single tools and multi-tools. NOVO\u2122 then ranks the results\u2014based on knowledge-based rules\u2014to best meet the challenges of the application as defined by the customer\u2019s operating environment and user preferences, providing far more useful process knowledge than any online catalog alone, all obtained in a fraction of the time.<\/p>\n
In the second case, when a customer already has preferred tool and grade in mind, NOVO\u2122 smart-attribute filters not only quickly select the products available to do the job, NOVO\u2122 also gives the options on what cutting item and adaptive item fits and also works with the selected solution. NOVO\u2122 smart filters take the task of selecting ALL cutting tool components from hours to minutes, while providing a comprehensive and accurate list of solutions based on customer input.<\/p>\n
In both cases, NOVO\u2122\u2019s Tool Configurator then provides all CAD files and graphic support for all tool components and their assembly \u2013 a major time savings for customers.<\/p>\n
Even further, NOVO\u2122\u2019s Job Functionality option is a cloud-based repository linked to a user by a unique ID where tool lists can be stored for future use, editing, copying, and sharing. These can be easily downloaded into standard report formats and include tooling commercial and dimensional data and weights, speeds and feeds, and photo or CAD model images.<\/p>\n
Seamless Connectivity, E-Commerce, and Tool Management<\/strong> Specifically, NOVO\u2122 users can request a price quote from their local WIDIA Distribution Partners by transferring their shopping cart list to them via the \u201cRequest Quote\u201d button. The distributor will receive a notification with complete detail of the items and requestor information to respond. A new pop-up also makes it easy to add spares and other individual items to existing shopping carts. Spare parts are clearly identified as \u201cincluded\u201d or \u201cnon-included\u201d on bills of material.<\/p>\n ToolBOSS\u2122 users on the cloud with the latest software version can now use NOVO\u2122 to see if an item proposed for a process plan is already available in their ToolBOSS\u2122 inventory, making both plans and budgets more efficient. Customer part numbers are automatically populated in NOVO\u2122 Tool Advisor results and Tool Availability pop-ups via the ToolBOSS\u2122 database. \u201cBy adding ToolBOSS\u2122 credentials to their user profile, customers easily check the inventory in their local ToolBOSS\u2122 units with their developing process plans,\u201d says Chris Merlin, Marketing Manager for the Virtual Machining initiative at Kennametal. \u201cThey\u2019re better able to visualize items already in their shop.\u201d<\/p>\n Mobility<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WIDIA has a saying: \u201cExtreme Challenges \u2013 Extreme Results.\u201d Over the years, this has come to mean metalworking productivity breakthroughs for numerous shops from such well-known WIDIA names as VariMill\u2122, VariTap\u2122, WIDIA Victory\u2122, and numerous others. In the future of what some have coined Industry 4.0 extreme opportunities exist in the digital integration of tooling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[1027,1447,1448,1484],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tool","tag-novo","tag-varimill","tag-varitap","tag-widia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfgtechupdate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCustomers expect continuous fast development of technology platforms to deliver more value. Since the 2013 launch of the NOVO\u2122\u2019s original Tool Selector, Tool Configurator, Tool Advisor, and Job functions, NOVO\u2122 has added connectivity to E-commerce, easy ISO 13399 exports, and seamless integration to the ToolBOSS\u2122 tool management system via the Machining Cloud\u2122.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nUsers can leverage NOVO\u2122 via the tablet of their choice. \u201cMobility is no longer a luxury. With Android and Windows Tablet versions of NOVO\u2122 now available, it brings an element of added mobility and access to your tool list no matter which device you log onto,\u201d Merlin adds. \u201cThis also makes it easy for people working on the shop floor with tablets to collaborate with the process planners in other departments.\u201d<\/p>\n